The Life of Daniel Defoe
A Critical Biography
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-119-04530-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions.
Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe
Places emphasis on Defoe's distinctive style and rhetoric
Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant
Now available in paperback
Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe
Places emphasis on Defoe's distinctive style and rhetoric
Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant
Now available in paperback
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-04530-4 (9781119045304)
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Person
John Richetti is A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the eighteenth-century English novel and eighteenth-century philosophical prose, including The English Novel in History: 1700-1780 (1999), Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (1983), Defoe's Narratives (1975), and Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739 (1969). He has edited Robinson Crusoe (2003), among other titles.
Content
Preface vi Acknowledgments x
1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator,Writer 1
2 Early Writings 1697-1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems 31
3 Political Journalism: 1697-1710 70
4 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians 113
5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714-31 143
6 Robinson Crusoe 174
7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure 213
8 Crime and Narrative 234
9 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment 268
10 History, Facts, and Literature 301
11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715-31 337
Notes 362
Bibliography 390
Index 395
1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator,Writer 1
2 Early Writings 1697-1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems 31
3 Political Journalism: 1697-1710 70
4 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians 113
5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714-31 143
6 Robinson Crusoe 174
7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure 213
8 Crime and Narrative 234
9 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment 268
10 History, Facts, and Literature 301
11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715-31 337
Notes 362
Bibliography 390
Index 395