Chronology Entry
Year
1960
Text
Fan, Cunzhong. [On Defoe's Robinson Crusoe] (1960). [ID D26816].
Fan Cunzhong states emphatically one of the prominent Marxist points of view : "In the person of Robinson Crusoe we not only see the face of capitalism, but we also come to understand a specific period – the growth of British capitalism."
He describes this new capitalist class as "prosperous, self-confident, aggressive", but not at all explitative and very different from today's "ceclining capitalis". Robinson Crusoe is not the starting point of historical development, but the product. Continues with assessments of Robinson as always the merchang and colonizer, especially in his travels through China, and of Defoe, "a pre-Adam Smith economist", because of beliefs in ouverseas trade and the necessisty to establish English volonies in Central America. He clarifies the important difference between Thomas More's and Francis Bacon's utopias as fairylands and Crusoe's island as "the product of the imagination of the colonialist".
Fan Cunzhong states emphatically one of the prominent Marxist points of view : "In the person of Robinson Crusoe we not only see the face of capitalism, but we also come to understand a specific period – the growth of British capitalism."
He describes this new capitalist class as "prosperous, self-confident, aggressive", but not at all explitative and very different from today's "ceclining capitalis". Robinson Crusoe is not the starting point of historical development, but the product. Continues with assessments of Robinson as always the merchang and colonizer, especially in his travels through China, and of Defoe, "a pre-Adam Smith economist", because of beliefs in ouverseas trade and the necessisty to establish English volonies in Central America. He clarifies the important difference between Thomas More's and Francis Bacon's utopias as fairylands and Crusoe's island as "the product of the imagination of the colonialist".
Mentioned People (2)
Defoe, Daniel
(London Ende 1659 oder Anfang 1660-1731 London) : Schriftsteller
Fan, Cunzhong
(um 1962) : Professor Nanjing-Universität
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
Documents (1)
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Bibliography of Defoe studies in the Far East : China and Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. Spiro Peterson, Cho Sungkyu, Hope Cotton, Minoru Oda, Huang Xian-fang, and Sung-Kyoon Kim. In : Eighteenth-century fiction ; vol. 8, issue 1 (1995). [Enthält keine Zeichen und kein Pinyin, deshalb wurden nicht alle Artikel der Sekundärliteratur aufgenommen]. http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1129&context =ecf&sei-redir=1#search=%22defoe%20china%20bibliography%22. |
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