![]() 1 Robinson Crusoe was not born a children’s story but was made one by virtue of its sometimes surprising articulation with ideas that were crystallizing around children in the period: how they should be educated, what their relation to their parents should be, and how they were coming to embody, symbolically, both the promise of the future and a longing for the innocence of the past. ![]() That arguably the most influential and enduring work of fiction in the canon of children’s literature, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), should be a story primarily concerning a solitary man on a deserted island and originally intended for an adult readership is in many ways a peculiar phenomenon. ![]()
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