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Direct linkCooney, Brian C. – College English, 2007
This essay explores a reading of "Robinson Crusoe" that suggests the novel has taken on new gravity after the first "preemptive" war in U.S. history, a war justified by the attempt to "spread freedom" to Iraq. It examines how Crusoe comes to understand the relationship between the state and the individual. Robinson…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Freedom, Democracy, Historical Interpretation
