The Fortress of American Solitude

The Fortress of American Solitude

Author: Shawn Thomson

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0838642179

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For individuals who are interested in how Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives of shipwrecks and castaways influenced antebellum American Culture, Shawn Thomson's The Fortress of American Solitude is useful. More specifically, for Melville scholars, the second, third, and fourth chapters provide some interesting insight into possible readings for how Defoe's novel-and the castaway genre in general-may have influenced Melville's call to sea and the penning of some of his most interesting characters.


American Women Writers

American Women Writers

Author: Lina Mainiero

Publisher: New York : Ungar

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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Reference guide to American women writers with an assessment of each authors work and complete bibliographies.