A Table in the Wilderness: Desire, Subjectivity, and Animal Husbandry in Robinson Crusoe.
This article argues that Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) offers a surprising account of how the human subject is imagined and con structed. I read Defoe's novel as a deep—often opaque and contradictory—medita tion on how human subjectivity is produced through the inter relations between human...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 9 - 30 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Fall2019
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