Peter Wilkins
A Romantic Cult Book
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20045577 |
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| Authors | Nora Crook (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Pages | 86-98 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Reviewing Romanticism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-21952-0_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2481274330 |
| ISBN | 9781349219520 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Peter Wilkins, by the obscure author Robert Paltock,1 was destined to become one of the most rediscovered of all novels. Published anonymously in 1750, it was pronounced dull and derivative, ‘the illegitimate offspring of no very natural conjunction betwixt Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe’.2 Yet it must have attracted a readership, for it was translated into German and French, and was in the 1780s included in the encyclopaedic collections, Harrison’s Novelist’s Magazine (1783) and Garnier’s Voyages Imaginaires (1788)
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Audience measurement · Cult · German · Literature · Political science · Romance · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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