What is an analysis of Robinson Crusoe?

Much
celebrated for itsand often referred to as the first English novel, has
inspired both intense devotion and intense revulsion. Few critics, however, remain neutral about
it.

Virginia Woolf, who writes appreciatively of this novel in her second
Common Reader, says this of it:

A
middle class had come into existence, able to read and anxious to read not only about the loves
of princes and princesses, but about themselves and the details of their humdrum lives.
Stretched upon a thousand pens, prose had accommodated itself to the demand; it had fitted
itself to express the facts of life rather than the poetry.

Woolf's stance has been a common take on the novel: Robinson
Crusoe celebrates the thrift, self-reliance, and common sense of a growing middle
class which depended on its own wits and resourcefulness to rise in the world rather than on
inherited titles or wealth.

In the modern era, however, critics have been
prone to critique it. Franz Fanon,...