Slurs
Defoe is as good at mocking Robinson as anyone, despite swallowing a thesaurus. In volume three: ”poor, wild, wicked Robinson” (316) “a churl, a morose, sour disposition, a…
Tag: Robinsonade
Robinson Crusoe – 1902
This version of Robinson Crusoe, by the immortal Georges Méliès, was made 1902. This 12 and a half minute hand-coloured nitrate print was rediscovered and restored in 2011.…
Robinson Vols 1 & 2.
Crikey, would you have paid 35 grand (in 2017) for just parts one and two of the original Robinson – this was missing the third part. Bargain at…
Kant on Robinson
well well… of course Robinson serves all who want him to be twisted this way and that – of its time, of our time… Immanuel Kant seems to…
Two Robinsons, one more to come…
Robinsonades: pertaining to allegories from the East India Company in Ceylon and other islands, from Marxism to Post-structuralism, and in which, dear reader, a 300-year-old adventure book may…
Robinson on Con Dao
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Trinkets in Defoe
Reading Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins’ 2013 book A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism (Global Asias), Oxford: Oxford University Press, and seeing after Robinson, D…
Seventeenth-Century Trincketts
Early coinage – for numismatists: I am reading about Dampier and Jeoly (possible model for the fiction of Friday in Defoe’s Robbo book) and digging into texts about…
Robinsonades: we are all a bit Robbo now.
Several Robinsinades are coming soon. But folks seem a bit confused about which Daniel Defoe to get into right now. As the world splutters towards total collapse, I…
Defoe on prisons 1698
Defoe, as a good Protestant, was of course keen to remedy the ‘torrent of vice’, ‘venal crime’ and ‘Epidemick Distemper’ that afflicted the nation with ‘wicke…