Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with His Vision of the Angelick World: The Stoke Newington Edition - Softcover

MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published widely on seventeenth-­ and eighteenth­-century literature, has edited a number of volumes in the “Cali­fornia Dryden,” has written five books on Daniel Defoe, and is a general editor of the Stoke Newington Edition of the Writings of Daniel Defoe.

IRVING N. ROTHMAN, who passed away in April 2019, was a professor of English at the University of Houston, where he had taught since 1967. He was one of the general editors of the Stoke Newington Edition of the Writings of Daniel Defoe and edited or coedited three volumes, including The Political History of the Devil and two volumes of The Family Instructor.

MANUEL SCHONHORN, who passed away in April 2021, was a professor of English emeritus at Southern Illinois University. His books include Defoe’s General History of the Pirates and Defoe’s Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and “Robinson Crusoe.” He published articles on Defoe, Pope, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Twain, and Hemingway, was the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Clark Library–UCLA Fellow, Huntington Library Fellow, and Newberry Library–British Academy Exchange Fellow, and was a member of the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth­-Century European Culture.