The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives
by
Ian Kinane
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
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...