Theorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives

by Ian Kinane

Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western "islomania" - or our obsession with islands - from its origins in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe right up to contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American and European representations of fictionalized Pacific Island topographies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783488069
• ISBN13: 9781783488063
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"