The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe
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- Real Author: Daniel Defoe
- Editor: Nicholas Seager, Keele University
- Date Published: September 2022
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107133099
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This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript habits.
Read more- Contains Defoe's complete known correspondence with a professionally edited text, providing a full and reliable picture of Defoe as a correspondent and revealing his writerly habits and traits in a way that has never been available before
- An extensive introduction and thorough annotations comprehensively relate Defoe's letters to their wider biographical, literary, economic, religious, and political contexts, illuminating a dynamic and hugely consequential phase of British history with authoritative scholarship and fresh insight
- Sheds light on Defoe's habits as a correspondent through high-quality images of his original manuscripts taken from various repositories and eras of his career, presenting each letter alongside thorough description and analysis as well as offering new insights on these documents in the introduction
Awards
- Winner, 2023 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize, The Literary Encyclopedia
Reviews & endorsements
'This authoritative edition gives insights into a range of contemporary events and preoccupations: colonization, religious controversy, communication and transport networks, the publishing trade and relations between authors and printers, the operation of eighteenth-century spymasters and methods of political fact-finding. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of the period, not least the Union with Scotland and the Hanoverian Succession.' Margarette Lincoln, Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'Nicholas Seager's outstanding and painstaking scholarship has created an edition that deserves to be the standard by which we measure for at least the next 50 years.' Kit Kincade, NPEC Reviews
'… this edition is a truly splendid literary and literary-critical trove … Hard to imagine it being outdone or superseded. Plainly, as Defoe might say, final words.' Valentine Cunningham, The Glass
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- Date Published: September 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107133099
- length: 1014 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 53 mm
- weight: 1.71kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Editorial Principles and Practice
Chronology
Conventions and Abbreviations
Calendar of Letters
Introduction
The Letters I
Select Bibliography
Index.
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