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How did ‘Robinson Crusoe’ help to patronize east?

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first read Daniel Defoe’s novel when I moved to the Stoke Newington area of north London, in 2002. It seemed only polite, as Defoe wrote his classic tale of shipwreck and survival in a house on Church Street. The house has long gone but a blue plaque marks the spot, above the taxi company Defoe Cars (now operating under another name) on the corner of Defoe Road. The Daniel Defoe pub (now also, sadly, renamed) stood opposite. So I started reading Crusoe out of a sense of place, and if I’m honest, a sense of duty and of ticking a title off the canonical list.
Yet I was blown away, as millions of readers have been since the first edition came out in April 1719. Defoe was almost 60 by then, we believe, and Robinson Crusoe was his debut as a fiction writer (let that sink in for a moment). Three centuries on, his work is still read and enjoyed for its extraordinary dramatic verve and the vivid depiction of a mind-bendingly strange experience. Crusoe’s consciousness and the arc of his story have been endlessly discussed and studied through the lenses of successive champions, critics and imitators. There is even a literary genre named for the novel: the ‘Robinsonade’, defined as ‘a desert island story’ or ‘castaway narrative’. Recent examples include the novel The Martian (and its successful movie adaptation), the fantasy series Lost (to which I was hopelessly addicted), and the 2018 Netflix drama Lost In Space, a very successful reboot of the 1960s TV Robinsonade of the same name. Notable literary Robinsonades include J G Ballard’s Concrete Island, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and J M Coetzee’s 1986 novel Foe, a brilliant retelling of Crusoe that features Daniel Foe, a money-obsessed writer, as a key character.


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