... roles (or lack thereof) of women in each story. By comparing and contrasting these two adventure novels, readers can learn how the authors affected the future of the action-adventure genre of literature. One similarity between the stories is that both "Robinson Crusoe" and "Treasure Island" have a lot of action involving the use of guns. The men who have the guns ... by the freedom and adventure that sea-travel offered. "One subgenre of adventure fiction thematizing freedom of movement as the freedom of the seas is the eighteenth century genre of the maritime picaresque that Defoe's "Ro...

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