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Robinsonade
(ˌrɒbɪnsəˈneɪd, ‖ -aːdə)
Also Robinsonnade and with lower-case initial. Pl. Robinsonades, ‖ -aden.
[ad. G. Robinsonade (coined by J. G. Schnabel, Die Insel Felsenburg (1731), Preface): see next and -ade.]
A novel with a subject similar to that of Robinson Crusoe; a story about shipwreck on a desert island.
1847Blackw. Mag. Sept. 330/2 These outcasts from civilisation, the adventures of most of whom would furnish abundant materials for a Robinsonade. 1941P. B. Gove Imaginary Voy. Prose Fiction p. ix, The late Hermann Ullrich, whose knowledge of the influence of Robinson Crusoe has probably never been equaled, put on the title page of his bibliography of robinsonades in 1898 ‘Teil I’. Ibid. i. v. 125 Imitations of Robinson have been known usually as Robinsonaden or robinsonades (only rarely as robinsoniads), and similar works published before 1719 as prerobinsonades. 1967B. W. Alderson tr. B. Hürlimann's Three Centuries Children's Bks. in Europe xvii. 252 Robinsonnades, like history, geography, and travel books, have always had a big attraction for the Swiss. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 618/3 Robinsonade, novel written in imitation of Robinson Crusoe..dealing with the problem of the castaway's survival on a desert island. 1978D. Waggoner Hills of Faraway 16 The Robinsonade is, of course, named for Robinson Crusoe, and is the story of a castaway—a voyage cut short—in an isolated setting, which the author can use to describe his ideas of the basic elements separating man from beast. |