The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
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Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Editor: John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania
- Date Published: January 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521858403
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Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wide range of Defoe's fiction and non-fiction, and assesses his importance as writer and thinker. Leading scholars discuss key issues in Defoe's novels, and show how the man who was once pilloried for his writings emerges now as a key figure in the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century.
Read more- Designed to introduce students to the full range of Defoe's writing
- Explains Defoe's place in the political, literary and intellectual culture of his time
- Features a guide to further reading and a chronology
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- Date Published: January 2009
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521858403
- length: 266 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction John Richetti
1. Defoe: the man in the works Paula Backscheider
2. Defoe's political and religious journalism Maximillian Novak
3. Defoe, commerce, and empire Srinivas Aravamudan
4. Defoe and criminal fiction Hal Gladfelder
5. Money and character in Defoe's fiction Deidre Lynch
6. Defoe's Tour and the identity of Britain Pat Rogers
7. Defoe as narrative innovator John Richetti
8. Gender and fiction in Moll Flanders and Roxana Ellen Pollak
9. Defoe and London Cynthia Wall
10. Robinson Crusoe and the varieties of fictional experience Michael Seidel
11. Defoe: satirist and moralist John McVeagh
12. Defoe and poetic tradition J. Paul Hunter
Guide to further reading
Index.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Major British Authors: Defoe and His World
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