Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Opinions of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe is a comprehensive survey of early estimations by prominent literary and political figures, including Alexander Pope, JeanJacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill.

The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first-edition copy in the British Museum, with the "Errata" listed by Defoe's publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into the text. Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithful to Defoe'srig inal edition. Annotations assist the reader with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and nautical terms.

"Contexts" helps the reader understand the novel's historical and religious significance. Included are four contemporary accounts of marooned men, Defoe's autobiographical passages on the novel's allegorical foundation, and aspects of the Puritan emblematic tradition essential for understanding the novel's religious aspects.

"Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Opinions of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe" is a comprehensive survey of early estimations by prominent literary and political figures, including Alexander Pope, JeanJacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill.

"Twentieth-Century Criticism" is a collection of fourteen essays (five of them new to the Second Edition) that presents a variety of perspectives on Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, Eric Berne, Maximillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A. Starr, J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, Leopold Damrosch, Jr.John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan Flynn.

A Chronology of Defoe's life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface

The Text of Robinson Crusoe

 A Note on the Text

Contexts

 CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF MAROONED MEN

 William Dampier · [Rescue of a "Moskito Indian"

 Marooned over Three Years on Juan Fernandez

 Island]

 Edward Cooke · [Rescue of Alexander Selkirk from

 Juan Fernandez Island]

 Woodes Rogers · [Account of Alexander Selkirk's Solitary

 Life on Juan Fernandez Island for Four Years and

 Four Months]

 Richard Steele * [On Alexander Selkirk]

 AUTOBIOGRAPHY: ROBINSON CRUSOE AS ALLEGORICAL HISTORY

 Daniel Defoe · [Preface to Volume II of Robinson

 Crusoe]

 · [Preface to Volume III of Robinson Crusoe]

 · Serious Observations

 THE PURITAN EMBLEMATIC TRADITION

 J. Paul Hunter * [The "Guide" Tradition]

 · [The "Providence" Tradition]

 · [Spiritual Biography]

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Opinions

 Charles Gildon * The Life and Strange Surprizing

 Adventures of Mr. D----- De F--

 Alexander Pope * [On Defoe]

 Theophilus Cibber * [The Success of Robinson

 Crusoe]

 Jean-Jacques Rousseau * [A Treatise on Natural

 Education]

 Samuel Johnson * [In Praise of Defoe and Robinson

 Crusoe]

 Hugh Blair · [Fictitious History]

 James Beattie · [The Morality of Robinson Crusoe]

 George Chalmers · [The Popularity Of Robinson Crusoe]

 [John Ballantyne] · [On Defoe]

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge · [Crusoe as a Representative

 of Humanity]

 Charles Lamb · [On Defoe's Novels]

 William Wordsworth · [Crusoe's Extraordinary Energy

 and Resource]

 Edgar Allan Poe · [Defoe's Faculty of Identification]

 William Hazlitt · [The Influence of Robinson Crusoe]

 Thomas De Quincey · [The Double Character of

 Defoe's Works]

 George Borrow · [Inspiration from Robinson Crusoe]

 Thomas Babington Macaulay · [On Defoe]

 Charles Dickens · [The Want of Emotion in Defoe]

 Karl Marx · [Crusoe and Capitalism]

 John Stuart Mill · [The Preeminence of Robinson Crusoe

 in Childhood]

 Leslie Stephen · [Defoe's Discovery of a New Art Form]

Twentieth-Century Criticism

 Virginia Woolf · Robinson Crusoe

 Ian Watt · Robinson Crusoe as a Myth

 Eric Berne · The Psychological Structure of Space

 with Some Remarks on Robinson Crusoe

 Maximillian E. Novak · Robinson Crusoe and the

 State of Nature

 Frank Budgen · [On Joyce's Admiration of Defoe]

 James Joyce · Daniel Defoe

 George A. Starr · Robinson Crusoe and the Myth

 of Mammon

 J. Paul Hunter · The "Occasion" of Robinson Crusoe

 James Sutherland · [On Robinson Crusoe]

 John J. Richetti · Robinson Crusoe: The Self as Master

 Leopold Damrosch, Jr. · Myth and Fiction in Robinson

 Crusoe

 John Bender · The Novel and the Rise of the

 Penitentiary: Robinson Crusoe

 Michael McKeon · Defoe and the Naturalization of

 Desire: Robinson Crusoe

 Carol Houlihan Flynn · Consumptive Fictions:

 Canmbalism and Defoe

Daniel Defoe: A Chronology

Selected Bibliozraphy