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OverviewExploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre’s ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jakub LipskiPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 5 Weight: 0.213kg ISBN: 9789004690455ISBN 10: 900469045 Pages: 110 Publication Date: 06 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJakub Lipski is University Professor of Anglophone Literatures, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century English fiction and its afterlives. He is the editor of Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media (Bucknell University Press, 2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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