Contexts helps the reader understand the novel\'s historical and religious significance.
A Chronology of Defoe\'s life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included..
Richetti, Leopold Damrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan Flynn.
Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J.
Starr, J.
Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A.
Twentieth-Century Criticism is a collection of fourteen essays (five of them new to the Second Edition) that presents a variety of perspectives on Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, Eric Berne, Maximillian E.
Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Opinions is a comprehensive study of early estimations by prominent literary and political figures, including Alexander Pope, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill.
Included are four contemporary accounts of marooned men, Defoe\'s autobiographical passages on the novel\'s allegorical foundation, and aspects of the Puritan emblematic tradition essential for understanding the novel\'s religious aspects.
Contexts helps the reader understand the novel\'s historical and religious significance
