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...

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Published in:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 9 - 30
Main Author: Kelleher, Paul
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: University of Toronto Press Fall2019
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