Overview
- Examines how Asia is represented in Robinson Crusoe and how the book has been received and taught in Asian contexts
- Highlights the original historical context of the novel (involving politics, finance, religion and geography) with a reception history
- Focuses on the book’s subsequent reworkings in specifically Asian contexts, and mutation with genres already developed in those traditions
Part of the book series: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English (APLE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Robinson Crusoe in the Context of Travel Narrative
- Crusoe and Asian appropriation
- Robinson Crusoe and Early Enlightenment Piracy
- imperialism and travel writing in Crusoe
- Religious Toleration and Daniel Defoe
- the French Robinsonade and Defoe
- colonial representation and Robinson Crusoe
- modernization theory
About this book
This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book – The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) – to take in the far less well-known Farther Adventures and the almost unread Serious Reflections, beyond Defoe’s texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has been received, adapted, and taught, particularly in Asian contexts.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yukari Yoshihara is an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. She is an author and editor of English Studies in Asia (2007) and Asian English: Histories, Texts, Institutions (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Robinson Crusoe in Asia
Editors: Steve Clark, Yukari Yoshihara
Series Title: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4051-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4050-6Published: 14 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4053-7Published: 15 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-4051-3Published: 13 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7638
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7646
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 306
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Culture, Asian Literature, Comparative Literature