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Approaches to Teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

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Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.
Maximillian E. Novak has published numerous works on eighteenth-century literature. His books on Defoe are Economics and the Fiction of Daniel Defoe; Defore and the Nature of Man; Realism, Myth, and History in Defoe's Fiction; and Daniel Defoe, Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas. Carl Fisher is Professor of comparative literature at California State Univeristy, Long Beach. His publications include articles on Defoe, Sterne, Rousseau, Godwin, Hannah More, and the representation of pigs in the eighteenth century. He was coeditor, with Clorinda Donato, of the book review section of Eighteenth-Century Studies (2001-04).
This volume offers teachers of a wide variety of students an array of thematic, formal, and ideological approaches with an inventive mix of classroom strategies.--Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia
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