Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Exploring and Transcending the Genre
6. 1. “Mushrooms, Capers, and Other Sorts of Pickles”: Remaking Genre in Peter Longueville’s The Hermit (1727) 9
7. 2. “If I Had . . .”: Counterfactuals, Imaginary Realities, and the Poetics of the Postmodern Robinsonade 23
8. Part Two. National Contexts
9. 3. Castaways and Colonialism: Dislocating Cultural Encounter in The Female American (1767) 39
10. Setting the Scene for the Polish Robinsonade: The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki and the Early Reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland, 1769–1775 52
11. 5. The Rise and Fall of Robinson Crusoe on the London Stage 65
12. 6. Islands in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886): A Counter-Robinsonade 79
13. Part Three. Ecocritical Readings
14. 7. Stormy Weather and the Gentle Isle: Apprehending the Environment of Three Robinsonades 93
15. 8. Robinson’s Becoming-Earth in Michel Tournier’s Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967) 117
16. Part Four. The Robinsonade and the Present Condition
17. 9. “The True State of Our Condition”: The Twenty-First- Century Worker as Castaway 135
18. 10. Gilligan’s Wake, Gilligan’s Island, and Historiographizing American Popular Culture 148
19. Coda: Rewriting the Robinsonade 165
20. Acknowledgments 175
21. Bibliography 177
22. Notes on Contributors 189
23. Index 193