Colonizing Gestures: Crusoe, the Signing Sovereign
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DOI: 10.3138/ecf.29.4.537
Abstract: abstract:This article offers a reading of the colonialist and ableist (audist) assumptions that undergird Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719). I argue that Crusoe’s fraught experience of sound on the island serves as punishment for sins… read more here.
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Sociality and Good-Faith Economy in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
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DOI: 10.3138/ecf.30.2.153
Abstract: Abstract:Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe was long hailed as the founding myth of "Economic Man," with critics until the mid-twentieth century tending to portray the shipwrecked narrator as the exemplar of utilitarian individualism. The… read more here.
Keywords: crusoe; daniel defoe; robinson crusoe; sociality good ... See more keywords