Linking about: Robinson Crusoe
At our Victorian Studies Reading Group this afternoon, the subject of Robinson Crusoe and Victorian responses thereto put in an appearance. Ergo, some links:
- Robinson Crusoe: An e-text (U of VA).
- Se rêver Robinson...: A French site devoted to both Crusoe and the Robinsonnade, with an emphasis on French imitations.
- Exotisme Historique et Geographique: A French site on adventure stories, with some discussion of the Robinsonnade.
- Islands of Adventure: The Devon Library's holdings in both Robinson Crusoe and sundry knockoffs.
- Some pages devoted to the "real" Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk: Alexander Selkirk (excerpts from contemporary and near-contemporary accounts), BBC History, William Cowper's "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk," "The Real Robinson Crusoe" (Smithsonian article).
- Picturing the First Castaway: The Illustration of Robinson Crusoe: Illustrations from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
- N. C. Wyeth: Another e-text of Robinson Crusoe, with the Wyeth illustrations.
- Pantomime Guided Tour: Robinson Crusoe: Brief history, images, a playbill.
- "Westering Crusoes": An article on Capt. Mayne Reid and the Robinsonnade.
- "Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood": A talk by Walter Coppedge. See also the character name search for "Robinson Crusoe" at the IMDB.
- Variations on Robinson Crusoe: Brief essay from the Victorian Web.
- Bet you didn't know that February is Robinson Crusoe Month.