Defoe's America
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- Author: Dennis Todd, Georgetown University, Washington DC
- Date Published: September 2010
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The Americas appear as an evocative setting in more than half of Daniel Defoe's novels, and often offer a new beginning for his characters. In the first full-length study of Defoe and colonialism, Dennis Todd explores why the New World loomed so large in Defoe's imagination. By focusing on the historical contexts that informed Defoe's depiction of American Indians, African slaves, and white indentured servants, Dennis Todd investigates the colonial assumptions that shaped his novels and, at the same time, uncovers how Defoe used details of the American experience in complex, often figurative ways to explore the psychological bases of the profound conversions and transformations that his heroes and heroines undergo. And by examining what Defoe knew and did not know about America, what he falsely believed and what he knowingly falsified, Defoe's America probes the doubts, hesitancies, and contradictions he had about the colonial project he so fervently promoted.
Read more- The first full-length study of Defoe's attitudes toward colonialism
- Extensive analysis of white indentured servitude
- Integrates historical evidence and literary analysis to produce an important new interpretation
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- Date Published: September 2010
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511910722
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Defoe's America
2. Mastering the savage: conversion in Robinson Crusoe
3. Servitude and self-transformation in Colonel Jack
4. Moll Flanders and the misrepresentation of servitude
Conclusion: Defoe, cannibals, and colonialism
Bibliography
Index.
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