An edition of The fortress of American solitude: Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture
(2009)
The fortress of American solitude
Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture
by Shawn Thomson
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The fortress of American solitude: Robinson Crusoe and antebellum culture
2009, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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0838642179 9780838642177
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Robinson Crusoe as a topos of masculinity in nineteenth-century America
A remembrance of things Typee: Herman Melville and the making of the man who slept with cannibals
Outside the fortress of solitude: castaway pathos in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom and Herman Melville's "Bartleby, The scriverner" and "Benito Cereno"
Failed Crusoes: competing models of manhood in Herman Melville's Pierre and Elizabeth Stoddard's Two men
Crusoe in the Yankee nation: labor, class, and domesticity in James Fenimore Cooper's The crater and George Payson's Golden dreams and leaden realities
Female Crusoes, lady castaways, and Dickinson's castaway poetics: Victorian women in a masculine terrain
Conclusion: the failing Robinson Crusoe: Twain and the nostalgia for antebellum boyhood (1864-85).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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