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The Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 1107133092 1316459543 1009301969 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript habits.


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Daniel Defoe in context
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ISBN: 1108871925 1108870368 110887214X 1108836712 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Innovative in its structure and approach, Daniel Defoe in Context contains 42 essays by leading scholars illuminating the life, times, and world of Daniel Defoe. Defoe is one of the most important literary figures in English history, thanks not only to his pioneering novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, but also to his notable works in journalism, travel writing, conduct literature, and verse, both satiric and serious. Written with general readers and students in mind, the essays in this volume provide up-to-date knowledge about eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history in a high quality, clearly written, but completely accessible form. Together they demonstrate the ways not only in which Defoe's world shaped his writing, but also in which Defoe's writings profoundly affected his world, and therefore our world.


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Defoe's narratives ; situations and structures
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ISBN: 0198120672 9780198120674 Year: 1975 Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press,

Daniel Defoe : Schriften zum Erzählwerk
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ISBN: 3534057813 9783534057818 Year: 1982 Volume: 339 Publisher: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft


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Wrestling with Defoe : approaches from a workshop on Defoe's prose
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ISBN: 8832345625 9788832345629 Year: 1997 Volume: 30 Publisher: Milano : Cisalpino,


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Daniel defoe : dal saggio al romanzo
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ISBN: 8822101235 Year: 1984 Publisher: Firenze : La Nuova Italia,


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The Cambridge companion to Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 9780521858403 9780521675055 0521858402 0521675057 1139801295 1139002333 9781139002332 Year: 2008 Volume: *123 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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