Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses Not a critical or scholarly text but a reading text for a seminar Gratefully adapted from Project Gutenberg Changes may include paragraph divisions, highlights, spelling updates, bracketed annotations, & elisions (marked by ellipses . . . )

Chapters 1-4: required for first class meeting on Robinson Crusoe (up to "The Journal")

[Chapters 5-10: not required, but welcome to read and comment.]

Chapters 11-18: required for second class meeting on Robinson Crusoe (especially from "You are to understand that now I had . . . two plantations . . . " through "There was another tree . . . )

[Chapters 19 & 20: not required, but welcome to read and comment.]

(Instructor's note: Crusoe originally had no chapter divisions. These insertions from later editions are retained to help navigate web copy.)

Critical notes:

Karl Marx on Robinson Crusoe

Rousseau on Robinson Crusoe

John Stuart Mill on Robinson Crusoe

James Joyce on Robinson Crusoe

selections from Ian Watt, “’Robinson Crusoe,’ Individualism, and the Novel”