Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain
Panorama of the Nation
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- Author: Pat Rogers, University of South Florida
- Date Published: February 2022
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009098861
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Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century travel writing. Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is constantly cited even now by students in practically every branch of history, and there are few topics essential to our understanding of the nation in the early modern period that do not show up in its pages. Historians since the late nineteenth century have looked to the Tour as one of the richest and most insightful works describing Britain in the lead-up to the Industrial Revolution, and critics and biographers of Defoe have regularly named it as among his most characteristic and central works. Indispensable for virtually any interdisciplinary approach to the nation in this period, this new study provides wide-reaching, up-to-date analysis of the content of the Tour, and of its methods, sources, form, and vast historical significance.
Read more- Provides the first comprehensive account of one of the most important books written about Britain in the eighteenth century.
- Written in an accessible style and clearly organised into three parts (Form and Function; Time; Place), offering interdisciplinary insight for both new readers and students of Defoe into key aspects of the life of the British nation during his time.
- Conveys the extraordinary scale of Defoe's knowledge of British trade and commerce, detailing the book's 'vision of nationhood', examining its claims to epic status and emphasising Defoe's conviction, as a born Londoner, that the capital lay at the heart of the nation's economy.
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A major work of scholarship by one of our most eminent and erudite authorities on eighteenth-century literature. Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain displays Pat Rogers's unparalleled knowledge of Defoe and his world. Nobody else could have written this book. It is the result of a lifetime of research, an enthusiastic celebration of Defoe's singular achievement in writing A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. There is something surprising and edifying to learn on every page, for novice and expert readers alike. It will remain a landmark in Defoe scholarship for years to come. Joseph Hone, Newcastle University
See more reviewsIn a career spanning over fifty years, Pat Rogers has produced a body of scholarship of lasting value, erudite, historically informed, and, above all, well-written. Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain adds a distinguished chapter to this long history of scholarly excellence. This is Rogers at his best, analysing historical and textual evidence with elegance and wit. Approaching the Tour from various points of interest, Rogers gives us the definitive critical account of Defoe's topographical masterpiece for our time as we mark the tercentenary of its publication. Albert Rivero, Marquette University
'… an important book by a major scholar …' Jeremy Black, The New Criterion
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- Date Published: February 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009098861
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 157 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.635kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Form and Function:
1. The identity of Britain
2. Embedding and embodying the nation: Textual practices and form in the Tour
3. The epic strain
4. The shape of the nation
Part 2. Time:
5. The role of the Tour in the historiography of early modern Britain
6. The Jacobite rising in the Tour: Preventing the ruin of Scotland
7. The impact of the bubble
8. Local proverbs and folk wisdom
Part 3. Place:
9. The uses of topography
10. Road-testing the first turnpikes: Defoe's account of English highways
11. Defoe on Bristol: The text with an introduction and annotation
12. Atlas Maritimus: The case for Defoe's authorship.
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