How Robinson Crusoé got into collège: Literary careers and the birth of a classic in eighteenth-century France
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Published in 1719 as an authentic travel account, Robinson Crusoé became a classic of children’s literature in the early nineteenth century. Through the editorial story of the novel and the adaptations that occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century, this article aims to examine the process by which a book became a classic, in looking at an extreme case: that of a contemporary novel. It is a matter of showing how the narrative, iconographic, and material choices made by the authors and their publishers crossed the social trajectories of the authors and the contemporary debates on production for the youth and language teaching.
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