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Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western ';islomania' or our obsession with islands from its origins in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe right up to contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American and European representations of fictionalized Pacific Island topographies in contemporary literature, film, television, and other media. Theorising Literary Islands argues that the ubiquity of island landscapes within the popular imagination belies certain ideological and cultural anxieties, and posits that the emergence of a Western popular culture tradition can largely be traced through the development of the Robinsonade genre, and through early European and American fascination with the Pacific region.

Nenad Starc is a researcher, consultant and a professor in the fields of regional policy and planning at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia. He specializes in island development, spatial planning and local development programming.

The first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction.

This book shares critical and creative insights on the methodologies in island studies. It explores why and how islands serve powerful analytical ends. Considering interdisciplinary questions shaping the field, the book models what it means to think about and rethink island methodologies.

This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of "islandness." The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.