The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: The Stoke Newington Edition

About the Book

Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Headnote
            Introduction
            Critical Reputation
            Source in Defoe’s Writing and Other Authors
            Contemporary Influences on the Novel
            The Novel as Historical Fiction
            Philosophical and Social Themes
            Religion as a Formal Structure and Practice
            Colonial and Post-Colonial Themes
            Language, Style, and Fiction
            Selected Bibliography
            Works Consulted Before 1731
            Works Consulted After 1731
            Notes to Headnote
The Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
            The Preface
            The Journal
Bibliographic Descriptions
Variants
            Introduction to the List of Variants
            List of Variants
List of Works Consulted
Line Notes
About the Editors
 

About the Author :
MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK is a professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives: Finding the Thing Itself and Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions.

IRVING N. ROTHMAN was a professor of English at the University of Houston in Texas. 
 
MANUEL SCHONHORN is the author of Defoe’s General History of the Pyrates and Defoe’s Politics.

Review :
"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe revitalizes a classic text published three centuries ago. The scholarship displayed here--more than a decade in the making--provides full, expert annotation and an exhaustive textual collation. This is clearly the definitive edition, one that specialists and libraries alike will want to acquire." - Anthony W. Lee (editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle) "Edited by a trio of distinguished Defoe scholars, the Stoke Newington edition of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a welcome addition to the field. With its learned and wide-ranging introduction, its dense contextual and interpretive annotations, and its extensive bibliographical and textual apparatus, the volume will serve as the basis for scholarship and criticism for decades to come." - Benjamin Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University) " This book does all that you could ask of a thoroughly scholarly work, but won’t deter any enquirer; its introduction is thorough, judicious and wise, its bibliographical apparatus refrains from crowding the story and authentic illustrations are expertly annotated. Crisp footnotes, on the right page, are thorough, responsible and concise." (Times Literary Supplement) "Bucknell Press is to be commended for reviving this excellent project....A fine edition that scholars will want to acquire." (Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer) "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe revitalizes a classic text published three centuries ago. The scholarship displayed here--more than a decade in the making--provides full, expert annotation and an exhaustive textual collation. This is clearly the definitive edition, one that specialists and libraries alike will want to acquire." - Anthony W. Lee (editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle) "Edited by a trio of distinguished Defoe scholars, the Stoke Newington edition of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a welcome addition to the field. With its learned and wide-ranging introduction, its dense contextual and interpretive annotations, and its extensive bibliographical and textual apparatus, the volume will serve as the basis for scholarship and criticism for decades to come." - Benjamin Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University) " This book does all that you could ask of a thoroughly scholarly work, but won’t deter any enquirer; its introduction is thorough, judicious and wise, its bibliographical apparatus refrains from crowding the story and authentic illustrations are expertly annotated. Crisp footnotes, on the right page, are thorough, responsible and concise." (Times Literary Supplement) "Bucknell Press is to be commended for reviving this excellent project....A fine edition that scholars will want to acquire." (Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer)