Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Daniel Defoe: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Robinson Crusoe
Appendix A: Preface and Publisher's Introduction to Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
Appendix B: From Charles Gildon, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D..... De F... (1719)
Appendix C: Castaway Narratives
1. From Ibn Tufayl, Hai Ebn Yokdhan (tr. 1708)
2. Accounts of Alexander Selkirk
3. Richard Steele, The Englishman, No. 26 (1713)
4. From Penelope Aubin, The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family (1721)
5. From Leendert Hasenbosch, An Authentick Relation of the Many Hardships and Sufferings of a Dutch Sailor (1728)
Appendix D: Uses of Solitude
1. Richard Baxter, "Of Conversing with God in Solitude" (1664)
2. From Mary, Lady Chudleigh, "Of Solitude" (1710)
3. From Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, "The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" (1713)
4. Daniel Defoe, "Of Solitude" (1720)
5. Alexander Pope, "Ode on Solitude" (1736)
6. Edmund Burke, "Society and Solitude" (1757)
7. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius and Sophia (tr. 1762)
8. William Cowper, "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk" (1782)
9. Charlotte Smith, Sonnet XLIV, "Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex" (1789)
10. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (1798)
11. William Wordsworth, "Nutting" (1800)
12. William Cowper, "The Castaway" (1803)
Appendix E: Economic Contexts
1. From John Locke, "Of Property" (1698)
2. From Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776)
3. From Karl Marx, Capital (tr. 1887)
4. From Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (tr. 1930)
Appendix F: Defoe on Slavery and the African Trade
1. From Reformation of Manners, A Satyr (1702)
2. From An Essay upon the Trade to Africa (1711)
3. From A Review of the State of the British Nation (1711, 1712)
4. From Colonel Jack (1722)
5. From A Plan of the English Commerce (1728)
Appendix G: Cannibalism
1. Michel de Montaigne, "Of Cannibals" (tr. 1711)
2. From César de Rochefort, The History of the Caribby-Islands (tr. 1666)
3. William Dampier, "Of the Reports about Cannibals" (1703)
4. From Daniel Defoe, Serious Reflections (1720)
Appendix H: Illustrations of Friday's Rescue
1. Anonymous (1720)
2. Anonymous (1722)
3. Clément Pierre Marillier (1787)
4. Charles Ansell (1790)
5. Thomas Stothard (1790)
6. George Cruikshank (1831)
7. J.J. Grandville (1840)
8. Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) (1846)
9. Jules Fesquet (1877)
10. Otis Turner (director) (1913)
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