Abstract
The story of Robinson Crusoe, penned by Daniel Defoe in 1719, is one those remarkable books that created a new genre. The ‘Robinsonade’ or castaway story became one of the most popular forms of adventure novel, inspiring a host of famous ‘imitators’: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide (1894), R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858), and Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). Defoe’s tale also inspired true adventure. Matthew Flinders was ‘induced to go to sea against the wishes of my friends from reading Robinson Crusoe’. In the sizeable shipboard library of French explorer Lapérouse, there was only one novel: Robinson Crusoe
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 35-35 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | Australian Book Review |
Volume | 387 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2016 |
Keywords
- pirates
- castaways
- madness
- Crusoe's Island