SOURCE: "Recasting Crusoe: Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and the Nineteenth-Century Robinsonade," in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4, Winter, 1988, pp. 169-75.
In the following article, Maher traces popular response to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) in the nineteenth century, charting both criticism of the novel and its eventual influence on Victorian adventure fiction for boys.
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