Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade

by Jakub Lipski

Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre's ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville's The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900469045X
• ISBN13: 9789004690455
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"