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Robinsonade
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1. Definition

A robinsonade is a literary work centered on the motif of an individual or group marooned on an island against their will, and thus isolated from the world. The name of the genre derives from the name of the protagonist in Daniel Defoe’s novel about the marooning of a shipwreck victim far from civilization, entitled in full The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1719; translated into German as Das Leben und die gantz ungemeine Begebenheiten…

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Layh, Susanna, “Robinsonade”, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online, Editors of the English edition: Graeme Dunphy, Andrew Gow. Original German Edition: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Im Auftrag des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts (Essen) und in Verbindung mit den Fachherausgebern herausgegeben von Friedrich Jaeger. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2005–2012. Consulted online on 06 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2352-0272_emho_COM_026774>
First published online: 2015
First print edition: 20210601



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