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Life of Daniel Defoe

A Critical Biography

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvJohn Richetti

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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 CrusoePlaces emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoricSituates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participantNow available in paperback

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Utgivningsdatum2015-07-31
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
Antal sidor432
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781119045304

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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.

Preface vi Acknowledgments x1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator,Writer 12 Early Writings 1697–1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems 313 Political Journalism: 1697–1710 704 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians 1135 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714–31 1436 Robinson Crusoe 1747 Travel, Politics, and Adventure 2138 Crime and Narrative 2349 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment 26810 History, Facts, and Literature 30111 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715–31 337Notes 362Bibliography 390Index 395