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the texts in this volume offer an elegant interrogation of our repositioning of the Crusoe myth, both in terms of its generic reiterations, as well as the seepage of its iconography into the collective western consciousness.For the twenty-first century reader, Robinson Crusoe is a text which comes mired in interpretive responses, whether that be the conceptualisation of Crusoe's island as proto-colony, or of Crusoe's own archetypally Protestant attitudes.While the essays in this volume do not necessarily cast doubt on those assumptions, they offer alternative filters through which the text may be encountered, thus providing a platform for further research into the cultural legacy of the novel in the twenty-first century.The collection also provides us with a reminder that in reading Robinson Crusoe in isolation, we do not receive the text as Defoe's eighteenth-century readers would have done.That is to say that a reading of the first novel alongside its sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, further highlights the substantial inconsistencies in Crusoe's behaviour.It also invites us into Defoe's world of trade and travel in ways that the first volume, by itself, does not.Furthermore, many of the authors in this collection root their readings of both volumes in Defoe's own nonfiction, as well as in texts ranging from Protestant literature of the seventeenth century to contemporary records of environmental phenomena.This approach affords us some startlingly new insights into the text, which refine, and in some cases challenge, earlier readings of the novel.The volume is divided into three sections, addressing issues related to genre, themes, and structure respectively.The first section considers the