Question

Which description of robinson cruse is correct?A historical novel a epistory novel a novel about colonization a gpthic novel?

Answer 1

The term ‘imperial Gothic’ most commonly refers to late 19th-century fiction set in the British Empire that employs and adapts elements drawn from Gothic novels such as a gloomy, forbidding atmosphere; brutal, tyrannical men; spectacular forms of violence or punishment; and the presence of the occult or the supernatural. In Orientalism (1978), literary critic Edward Said demonstrated how 18th- and 19th-century European scholars influentially defined the ‘Orient’, in stark opposition to the West, as mysterious, barbaric, irrational, seductive and dangerous. Such conceptions of the ‘East’ would prove highly compatible with the conventions of Gothic fiction. Classic examples of the late-Victorian imperial Gothic genre as defined by Patrick Brantlinger include H Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and She (1887), both set in Africa, Rudyard Kipling’s story ‘The Phantom Rickshaw’ (1888), which takes place in British India, and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897), set in Egypt and London.

Answer 2

Robinson cruse was a slave trader . He was harsh with his slave and called him friday without bothering to ask his name . The character was felt normal and right in the eyes of readers that time and considered colonisation needed for the uplifment of societies . It was only much later dark faces of colonisation spread through novels.