WANDERKAMMER

"Defoe's contribution to the history of psychogeography is twofold. On the one hand his novel Robinson Crusoe releases a character who not only haunts the subsequent history of the novel itself but who also provides a curious intersection with the evolution of psychogeography. As we shall see, the figure of Robinson links Defoe to Rimbaud and the flâneur as well as to more recent incarnations of the urban wanderer in the films of Patrick Keiller. But it is in his Journal of the Plague Year that Defoe provides the prototype psychogeographical report, and, in the process, establishes London as the most resonant of all psychogeographical locations."

Merlin Coverley, Psychogeography, Pocket Essentials, 2010, 15.

J.R. CARPENTER
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