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Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Defoe as an Innovator of Fictional Form Chapter 2: Picturing the Thing Itself, or Not: Defoe, Painting, Prose Fiction, and the Arts of Describing Chapter 3: Unmentionable and the Ineffable Defoe's Fiction Chapter 4: Novel or Fictional Memoir: Scandalous Publication of Crusoe Chapter 5: Meatless Fridays: CAnnibalism as Theme and Metaphor Crusoe Chapter 6: Edenic Desires: Crusoe, Robinsonade, and Utopian Forms Chapter 7: Strangely Surpriz'd by Crusoe: A Response to David Fishelov's Robinson Crusoe, 'The Other,' and the Poetics of Surprise Chapter 8: Looking with Wonder Upon the Sea : Defoe's Maritime Fictions, Crusoe, and The Curious Age We Live in Chapter 9: Cave and the Grotto: Imagined Interiors and Realist Form Crusoe Chapter 10: The SUme of Humane Misery?: Ambiguities of Exile Defoe's Fiction Chapter 11: Ideological Tendencies Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period following the French Revolution: Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, Demale Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's Forester, and Frances Burney's Wanderer Afterword Bibliography About the Author

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