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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'This is a beautifully researched and intricately thought-out work of scholarship, whose apparently modest scope is deceptive, since the book ultimately pushes towards a far-reaching and provocative conclusion: that Robinson Crusoe, by heralding the future 'as modernity' and evoking the past 'as nostalgia', performs 'the kind of fundamentally contradictory cultural work into whose service the idea of childhood itself has been called for at least the last two centuries'' - Louise Joy, University of Cambridge, UK
'O'Malley's recognition of Robinson Crusoe as an enduring media event will, one hopes, spur other scholars to revisit the history of
this western classic and consider that Crusoe's legacy may not be built upon the power of Defoe's prose or narration, but rather on derivatives and adaptations that were frequently revised to reflect the ideas and values of a rapidly evolving society.' - Jordan Howell, University of Delaware, USA
'Weaving together social history, textual analysis, impressive archival research, and lucid theoretical argument, Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe is a tour de force of scholarship.' - Susan Naramore Maher, Children's Literature Association Quarterly
'O'Malley's study is interesting, insightful, and enjoyable.' - The Year's Work in English Studies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe
Authors: Andrew O’Malley
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027313
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27270-5Published: 31 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32346-3Published: 31 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02731-3Published: 30 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 195
Topics: Children's Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature