Politics, history, and the Robinson Crusoe story

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Bullard, R. orcid id iconORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9484-9579 (2018) Politics, history, and the Robinson Crusoe story. In: Richetti, J. J. (ed.) The Cambridge companion to 'Robinson Crusoe'. Cambridge University Press, pp. 84-98. ISBN 9781107696808

Abstract/Summary

This article offers a comprehensive analysis of Daniel Defoe's engagement with seventeenth-century theories of sovereignty in his first and best known novel, Robinson Crusoe. It interprets the text's verbal echoes of major political theorists including Filmer, Hobbes and Locke in ways that illuminate the development of the early novel in general, as well as Defoe's text in particular.

Item Type Book or Report Section
URI https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/76925
Refereed Yes
Divisions Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Early Modern Research Centre (EMRC)
Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Literature
Publisher Cambridge University Press
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