Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade

Acknowledgements

List of Figures



Introduction



1 The Castaway's Body in Robinson Crusoe and Its Visual Afterlives



2 Peter Longueville's The English Hermit (1727) and the Myth of the New Adam



3 Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins (1751): Mythical Androgyny and Evolutionary Hybridisation



4 The Female American (1767): a Failed Amazon



Coda: Castaway Bodies in the Counter-Canonical Robinsonade

?1 The Elemental Body in Michel Tournier's Friday

?2 Conquering the Body in Olga Tokarczuk's "The Island"

?3 Re-Reading the Amazonian Myth in J. M. Coetzee's Foe



Bibliography

Index

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• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
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castaways; the body; Robinson Crusoe; the Robinsonade; castaway narrative; the eighteenth century; eighteenth-century fiction; hybridity; the Amazon; the New Adam; the Androgyne; metamorphoses