An edition of The fortress of American solitude: Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture (2009)

The fortress of American solitude

Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture

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The fortress of American solitude
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Subjects

Masculinity in literature, Literature and society, American literature, History and criticism, Influence, Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character), Young men in literature, Castaways in literature, History, Defoe, daniel, 1661?-1731, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Youth in literature, Crusoe, robinson (fictitious character)

People

Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731)

Places

United States

Times

19th century
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The fortress of American solitude: Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture
2009, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Table of Contents

Robinson Crusoe as a topos of masculinity in nineteenth-century America
A remembrance of things Typee: Herman Melville and the making of the man who slept with cannibals
Outside the fortress of solitude: castaway pathos in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom and Herman Melville's "Bartleby, The scriverner" and "Benito Cereno"
Failed Crusoes: competing models of manhood in Herman Melville's Pierre and Elizabeth Stoddard's Two men
Crusoe in the Yankee nation: labor, class, and domesticity in James Fenimore Cooper's The crater and George Payson's Golden dreams and leaden realities
Female Crusoes, lady castaways, and Dickinson's castaway poetics: Victorian women in a masculine terrain
Conclusion: the failing Robinson Crusoe: Twain and the nostalgia for antebellum boyhood (1864-85).

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Madison, NJ

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/353
Library of Congress
PS217.M37 T47 2009, PS217.M37T47 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL23174956M
ISBN 13
9780838642177
LCCN
2009008215
OCLC/WorldCat
313078017
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6484913

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