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Steve Clark’s “‘Le coeur fou Robinsonne à travers les romans’: Crusoe’s Farther Adventures in the French Robinsonade” begins with Rousseau’s Emile (1762) choice of the novel as required reading which is predicated on the imminent defeat of France in the Seven Years War (1756–1763). Rousseau also provides a model for the rhapsodic monologues and lyrical reverie of the French tradition, which continued to flourish in symbolist verse (Rimbaud coins the verb ‘robinsonner’ in ‘Roman’ (1870); St John Perse composed ‘Images a Crusoe’ (1909), having translated the novel the previous year). The essay concludes that the Crusoe trilogy, rather than promoting an ethic of relentless pragmatism, is subject to “excess of imagination” which already contains the “Exctasies” and”Extravagances” of the French exoticist mode within itself (125).
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Clark, S. (2021). “Le coeur fou Robinsonne à travers les romans”: Crusoe’s Farther Adventures in the French Robinsonade. In: Clark, S., Yoshihara, Y. (eds) Robinson Crusoe in Asia. Asia-Pacific and Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4051-3_7
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