10 “To Us the Mere Name Is Enough”: Robinson Crusoe, Myth, and Iconicity

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. A Note on the Text ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Contributors 1
6. PART ONE : Generic Revisions
7. 1 The Martian: Crusoe at the Final Frontier 11
8. 2 Robinson’s Transgender Voyage: or, Burlesquing Crusoe 27
9. 3 Animal Crusoes: Anthropomorphism and Identification in Children’s Robinsonades 61
10. PART TWO : Mind and Matter
11. 4 Defoe and Newton: Modern Matter 81
12. 5 Crusoe’s Ecstasies: Passivity, Resignation, and Tobacco Rites 99
13. 6 Taken by Storm: Robinson Crusoe and Aqueous Violence 115
14. 7 Life Gets Tedious: Crusoe and the Threat of Boredom 135
15. PART THREE : Character and Form
16. 8 Crusoe’s Rambling 151
17. 9 Crusoe’s Encounters with the World and the Problem of Justice in The Farther Adventures 167
18. 10 “To Us the Mere Name Is Enough”: Robinson Crusoe, Myth, and Iconicity 183
19. Acknowledgments 203
20. Bibliography 205
21. Notes on Contributors 213
22. Index 217