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History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

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Further reading

Green, Martin, Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire (London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980).
Green, Martin, The Robinson Crusoe Story (University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990).
Keymer, Thomas and James Kelly (eds), Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Lovett, Robert W., Robinson Crusoe: A Bibliographical Checklist of English Language Editions (1719–1797) (New York, Westport, Connecticut, and London: Greenwood, 1991).
Owens, W. R. (ed.), Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, in The Novels of Daniel Defoe, gen. eds W. R. Owens and P. N. Furbank, 10 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008), vol. 1.
Rogers, Pat (ed.), Defoe: The Critical Heritage (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972).
Rogers, Pat, ‘Classics and Chapbooks’, in Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Brighton: Harvester, 1985), pp. 162–82.
Rose, Jonathan, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002).
Spass, Lieve and Brian Stimpson (eds), Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996).