The Strange Surprizing Sources of Robinson Crusoe

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Rodopi, 1994 - 229 Seiten

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Preface
7
vi
11
The Rise of a New Genre
17
Religion and Economics
33
Travel and Travel Fiction I France
53
Travel and Travel Fiction II Britain
75
Travel and Travel Fiction III The Netherlands
97
The Creation of Crusoe
119
Biographical Factors
137
The Farther Sources of Robinson Crusoe
155
The SmeeksDefoe Debate A Review
175
Conclusion
195
Index
225
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Seite 79 - I perceived a trade in use among them, which was to lend out corn: the benefit of which was fifty per cent, per annum. This I saw to be the easiest and most profitable way of living: whereupon I took in hand to follow it ; and what stock I had, I converted into corn or rice in the husk. And now as customers came for corn, I let them have it; to receive back at their next harvest, when their own corn was ripe, the same quantity I had lent them, and half as much more.
Seite 213 - The Capacity and Extent of the Human Understanding; exemplified in the extraordinary Case of Automathes, a young Nobleman, who was accidentally left in his Infancy upon a desolate Island, and continued Nineteen Years in that solitary State, separate from all Human Society.
Seite 80 - And thus, by the blessing of GOD, my little was increased to a great deal. For He had blessed me so, that I was able to lend to my enemies ; and had no need to borrow of them : so that I might use the words of JACOB, not out of pride of myself, but thankfulness to GOD, " that He brought me hither with my staff, and blessed me so here, that I became...
Seite 80 - I should suddainly be brought in to the King, which thing I most of all feared, and least desired, and hoping that out of sight might prove out of mind, I resolved to forsake the Court, and never more to ask for Tickets, especially seeing God had dealt so bountifully with me as to give me ability to live well enough without them. As when Israel had eaten of the Corn of the Land of Canaan, the Manna ceased ; so when I was driven to forego my Allowance that had all this while sustained me in this wilderness,...
Seite 82 - It seemed not a little strange to us, who had dwelt so long in straw cottages among the black heathen, and used to sit on the ground, and eat our meat on leaves; now to sit on chairs, and eat out of china dishes at a table ; where...
Seite 83 - And now I began to apply myself to make such necessary things as I wanted . . . ";*° and much more of like import. These parallel passages are not cited as proofs in themselves of Defoe's debt to Knox, but merely as evidence that this relation of Knox's with which we know Defoe was familiar has narrative devices and situations identical with those of "Robinson Crusoe.
Seite 187 - ... attempts to portray all the varieties of human experience, and not merely those suited to one particular literary perspective: the novel's realism does not reside in the kind of life it presents, but in the way it presents it.
Seite 80 - ... will seize all upon the account of their debts, and leave no corn at all for those that come later. For these that come thus a borrowing, generally carry none of their corn home when it is ripe : for their creditors ease them of that labour, by coming into their fields and taking it ; and commonly they have not half enough to pay what they owe. So that they that miss getting their debts this year, must stay till the next; when it will be doubled, two measures for one ; but the interest never...

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