At the annual conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE) in Kraków, 1-3 July 2022, the project team convened a panel on The Robinsonade: Transits and Transitions, in response to the general conference theme of Transitions.
The panel included five presentations from speakers representing academic institutions in Poland and Germany:
Jakub Lipski (Bydgoszcz), Transforming the castaway’s body
Agnieszka Łowczanin (Łódź), From affirmation to doubt and back: Shipwreck experience in Robinson Crusoe, Foe and “Wyspa”
Rachael Sumner (Mainz), Transformations in models of imperial masculinity in Robinson Crusoe and Heart of Darkness
Aleksandra Mrówczyńska (Bydgoszcz), Didacticism and the nineteenth-century Robinsonade: A comparative reading of selected examples
Patrick Gill (Mainz), Key transitions in the Robinson/Friday dynamic
