{"product_id":"robinson-crusoe-norton-critical-editions","title":"Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition copy in the British Museum, with the errata listed by Defoes publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into the text. Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithful to Defoes original edition. Annotations assist the reader with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and nautical terms.Contexts helps the reader understand the novels historical and religious significance. Included are four contemporary accounts of marooned men, Defoes autobiographical passages on the novels allegorical foundation, and aspects of the Puritan emblematic tradition essential for understanding the novels religious aspects.Eighteenthand NineteenthCentury Opinions is a comprehensive study of early estimations by prominent literary and political figures, including Alexander Pope, JeanJacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill.TwentiethCentury Criticism is a collection of fourteen essays (five of them new to the Second Edition) that presents a variety of perspectives on Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, Eric Berne, Maximillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A. Starr, J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, Leopold Damrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan Flynn.A Chronology of Defoes life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45899985158342,"sku":"DADAX0393964523","price":52.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/61DqzK0wlxL.jpg?v=1780306859","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/robinson-crusoe-norton-critical-editions","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}