Picture source: Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London: Harrison, 1782), illustrated by Thomas Stothard.
Compounding the problem of offering a complete listing of Defoe's works is that he is known to have published under at least 148 pen-names.
A. Novels — 1719-24
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe(London: W. Taylor, 1719)
- The The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720)
- Moll Flanders (1722)
- Captain Singleton (1722)
- The Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
- Colonel Jack (1722)
- Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724).
B. Non-fiction
- An essay upon projects (1697)
- The Storm (1704) — eyewitness accounts of the worst storm in recorded British history.
- The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (1705)
- Atlantis Major (1711)
- The Family Instructor (1715)
- Memoirs of the Church of Scotland (1717)
- Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick World (1720)
- The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard (1724) — describing the criminal exploits of the notorious prison-breaker.
- A Narrative of All The Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard (1724) — written by or taken from testimony by Sheppard himself in the condemned cell.
- A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (1724–1727)
- The Political History of the Devil (1726)
- The Complete English Tradesman (1726)
- A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed... (1727)
- A Plan of the English Commerce (1728)
- The Compleat English Gentleman, incomplete manuscript (1890)
- Of Royall Education, incomplete manuscript (1895).
C. Pamphlets or Essays in Prose
- The Poor Man's Plea (1698)
- The History of the Kentish Petition (1701)
- The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702)
- The Great Law of Subordination Consider'd (1704)
- Giving Alms No Charity, and Employing the Poor (1704)
- An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Tho' it be of his Worst Enemies, by Daniel Defoe, Being a True Account of His Conduct in Publick Affairs (1715)
- Every-body's Business, Is No-body's Business (1725)
- The Protestant Monastery (1726)
- Parochial Tyranny (1727)
- Augusta Triumphans (1728)
- Second Thoughts are Best (1729)
- An Essay Upon Literature (1726)
- Mere Nature Delineated (1726)
- Conjugal Lewdness (1727)
D. Pamphlets or Essays in Verse
- The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr (1701) — a defence of William III.
- Hymn to the Pillory (1703)
- An Essay on the Late Storm (1704)
Victorian Afterlife
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe cotinued to be enormously popular in the nineteenh century, and was frequently abridged and adapted for younger readers. A number of prominent Victorian artists, including the Dickens illustrators George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), and Wal Paget published illustrated editions that emphasized the exotic and adventure-story aspects of the novel The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and its sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, often issued together in a single volume.
The children's pantomime Robinson Crusoe was staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1796, with Joseph Grimaldi as Pierrot in the harlequinade. The piece was produced again in 1798, this time starring Grimaldi as Clown. In 1815, Grimaldi played Friday in another version of Robinson Crusoe.
Jacques Offenbach wrote an opéra comique called Robinson Crusoé, which was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 23 November 1867. This was based on the British pantomime version rather than the novel itself. The libretto was by Eugène Cormon and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux.
Works and Approaches — Sitemaps
- A Defoe Chronology, 1660-1895
- Theme and subject
- Genre and mode
- Stothard's illustrations (1790)
- Cruikshank's illustrations (1831)
- Edward Henry Wehnert (1813–68): Illustrations for Robinson Crusoe (1862)
- Phiz's illustrations (1864)
- Gilbert's illustrations (1860s)
- Robinson Crusoe cover design by John Leighton
- References in Robinson Crusoe in Dickens
Contexts & Editions
- Daniel Defoe Website [2 February 2018]
- Illustrated Editions of Robinson Crusoe
- Variations on Robinson Crusoe
- Capitalism
- Literary relations: sources, influences, analogues, intertextuality
- Philosophy and Religion in Defoe
- Some earlier authors included in the Victorian Web
- The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe il. H. M. Brock at Project Gutenberg
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe at Project Gutenberg
References
Allen, Walter. "The Beginnings." The English Novel: A Short Critical History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954. Pp. 21-42.
"A Memoir of the Author, and an Essay on his Writings." Daniel De Foe's Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated by Phiz. London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. Pp. 1-15.
Shinagel, Michael (ed.). Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
Stephen, Leslie. "De Foe's Novels." Hours in a Library. London: Smith, Elder, 1874. Pp. 54-58.
Last modified 2 Febuary 2018