1st Edition
Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel Studies in Reception
Introduction
Part I: Visual Transvaluations
Chapter 1: Re-Visioning Robinson’s Island: Thomas Stothard’s Rousseauvian Crusoe
Chapter 2: Philip James de Loutherbourg’s "Gothic" Tom Jones
Part II: Reception in Poland
Chapter 3: The Early Reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland
Chapter 4: Izabela Czartoryska (1746-1835) as Reader and Promoter of Sterne
Part III: Critical Afterlives
Chapter 5: Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey and Contemporary Travel Writing Studies
Coda: The Eighteenth-Century Novel in the Age of Trump: Critical Revisions and Popular Appropriations
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Jakub Lipski is associate professor and head of the Department of Anglophone Literatures at the Faculty of Literary Studies, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne (2014) and Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) as well as a number of articles and book chapters on eighteenth-century English literature. He has recently edited a collection of essays on the reception and afterlives of Robinson Crusoe – Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and Media (2020).
