Transatlantic Abridgment and the Unstable Economics of Robinson Crusoe.

This article examines the circulation and reception of cheap nineteenth-century American abridgments of Robinson Crusoe (1719). This essay shows that the American canonization of Daniel Defoe's narrative was a function of commercial printing and the democratic reading practices it enabled, particula...

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Publicado en:American Literature Vol. 93; no. 4; pp. 543 - 571
Autor principal: Gowen, Emily
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Duke University Press Dec2021
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