Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719; 2007)

Daniel Defoe.
Robinson Crusoe.
Edited with an Introduction by Thomas Keymer.
Notes by Thomas Keymer and James Kelly.
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 2008.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Editor: Thomas Keymer

• Thomas Keymer, his website.
• Thomas Keymer, Department of English, University of Toronto.
• Professor Thomas Keymer FBA, The British Academy.
• Thomas Keymer, GoodReads.com.
• Thomas Keymer, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Keymer, Thomas, 1962-, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF), The Library of Congress.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Daniel Defoe (c.1660 – 1731).
• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
• Robinsonade, "a literary genre of fiction wherein a person or a group of persons is suddenly separated from civilization".
• Allegory.
• Bildungsroman.
• Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719).
• Daniel Defoe, Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (1720).
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• English literature: Stuart Restoration (1660–1714).
• Restoration literature.
• English literature: Georgian era (1714–1837).
• English literature: Augustan literature (1714–1745).
• Augustan literature.
  (A good survey; provides context of Daniel Defoe.)
• English novel: Early novels in English.
  (Robinson Crusoe is recognized as one of the earliest English novels.)
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• 1719 in Great Britain: Publications.
• English society: 17th century.
• English society: Georgian society: 1714–1837.
• Kingdom of England: Early modern history, 1603–1707.
• Kingdom of Great Britain, 1707–1800.
• History of England: 17th century.
• Early modern Britain: Early Stuart era: 1603–1660.
• Early modern Britain: Later Stuart era: 1660–1714.
• Stuart Restoration, 1660–1688.
• Glorious Revolution, 1688.
• Nine Years' War, 1688–1697.
• War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1714.
• Early modern Britain: 18th century.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c.1830–1837.
• Maritime history of England: Seventeenth century.
• Barbary corsairs.
  (Early into the character Robinson Crusoe's career as a sailor the ship he is on is captured by Barbary pirates; he becomes a slave and lives for two years at Salé, in present day Morocco.)
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 16th–17th centuries.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 18th century.
• British Empire: English overseas possessions (1583–1707).
  
• British Empire in fiction: Period fiction.
• History of Brazil: Early Brazil.
  (After Robinson Crusoe escapes from couple years as a slave to a Barbary pirate he is picked up by a passing Portuguese trading vessel on its way to Brazil and Crusoe then spends a few years in Brazil establishing a plantation.)
• History of the Caribbean: Early colonial history.
  (After becoming established as a plantation owner in Brazil, Robinson Crusoe and some other Brazilian planters and merchants mount an expedition to bring a shipload of slaves to Brazil. Early into the outbound voyage a storm wrecks the ship and Crusoe is stranded on an island in the Caribbean Sea perhaps near the northern coast of South America in the area of present day Venezuela.)
• Historiography of the British Empire.

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Miscellaneous Discussions of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe :

• John Mullan, Convincing Fiction: Daniel Defoe to Ishiguro and Knausgaard, First Lecture in the Series The Powers of the Novel, Gresham College, 28 October 2020, YouTube 11 November 2020.
  (Discusses Robinson Crusoe.)
• John Mullan, Crime in Fiction: Defoe and Dickens to Spark, Highsmith and McEwan, Second Lecture in the Series The Powers of the Novel, Gresham College, 24 February 2021, YouTube 02 March 2021.
  (Discusses Moll Flanders.)
• Erik McCarthy, Daniel Defoe and the Novel, YouTube, 27 March 2023.
  (A good introductory survey of Daniel Defoe; discusses Moll Flanders instead of Robinson Crusoe.)
• Michael Sugrue, Great Authors - Literature of the Renaissance - Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, recorded 1990s, posted to YouTube 10 October 2020.
  (A very good lecture on Robinson Crusoe.)
• Michael Sugrue, Kristy Goboel, Marie Thurroid, Robinson Crusoe: Bibliotheca Webinar, YouTube, 01 April 2022.
• Susan Oliver, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, University of Essex, YouTube, 13 January 2014.
  (Another good lecture on Robinson Crusoe.)
• Timothy H. Wilson, Eighteenth-Century Literature: An Introduction, The Literature Channel, YouTube, 24 November 2024.
  (A very good survey.)
• Timothy H. Wilson, Robinson Crusoe: An Introduction, The Literature Channel, YouTube, 24 November 2024.
  (A very good lecture on Robinson Crusoe.)
• Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, Episode 325: Introduction to Alexander Pope and the Neo-Classical Poets, The Literary Life Podcast, 21 April 2026.
  (Loosely discusses the Eighteenth Century period when and after Defoe was writing. For more on this period of English literature see the article on Augustan literature.)

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Some other editions of Robinson Crusoe :

• Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. Edited by John Richetti. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2001, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe, Second Edition. Edited by Michael Shinagel. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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