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Daniel Defoe : Ambition and Innovation
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ISBN: 9780813161839 0813161835 0813150841 9780813150840 Year: 1986 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer.By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive reading of books published in England, his understanding of the reading tastes of his contemporaries, and h


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Defoe's major fiction : accounting for the self
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ISBN: 1611496144 1611496136 1611496152 9781611496147 9781611496130 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newark, [Delaware] : University of Delaware Press,

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This book examines the concern with narrativity and self-construction in Defoe's first-person fictional narratives. Arguing that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on issues of moral accountability and self-definition, it addresses the need to examine more sharply Defoe's novelistic achievement in the realm of character and narration and those aesthetic and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.


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Defoe's America
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ISBN: 9780521195812 9780511762048 9781107422476 9780511918278 0511918275 9780511916304 0511916302 0511762046 0521195810 1107205085 0511849060 1282818058 9786612818059 0511917295 0511914504 0511912692 1107422477 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Defoe's writings and manliness
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ISBN: 1317153464 1317153456 1282295268 9786612295263 0754697428 9780754697428 9780754656050 0754656055 9781282295261 9781315576299 9781317153443 9781317153450 1315576295 Year: 2009 Publisher: Farnham, England Burlington, VT Ashgate

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Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently returned to the issues of manliness and its contrary effeminacy, this book reveals how his writings drew upon and repeatedly tested the complex and diverse range of discourses through which masculinity was discussed in the period.


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Defoe's footprints : essays in honour of Maximillian E. Novak
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ISBN: 1442697695 9781442697690 0802099211 9780802099211 9780802099211 Year: 2009 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press,

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With attention to Defoe's neglected writings as well as to his important works, this volume uncovers his distance from and influence on modern literature, paying tribute to Maximillian E. Novak by presenting new ideas about, and new readings of, Daniel Defoe.


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Daniel Defoe : contrarian
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ISBN: 1442664495 9781442664494 9781442646100 1442646101 1442664509 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe's body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness.


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Reflections on sentiment : essays in honor of George Starr
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ISBN: 161149589X 1611495881 9781611495898 9781611495898 9781611495881 9781611495904 1611495903 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newark : University of Delaware Press,

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As scholarly interest has turned to emotion and affect, Reflections on Sentiment offers examples of Enlightenment feeling both challenging and promoting the period's touted reason and realism. Essays explore the complex relation of thought and sentiment in discourses from moral treatises and religious debates to interrogations of gender and family relations, from fictional tests of boundaries between human and non-human species to innovations in the forms of poetry, the novel, and the literary marketplace itself.


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Critical Study of Daniel Defoe's Verse : Recovering The Neglected Corpus of His Poetic Work
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ISBN: 0773420614 9780773420618 9780773437968 0773437967 Year: 2010 Publisher: : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Scholars of the eighteenth century who consult important critical editions or studies of Daniel Defoe or one of several recent Defoe biographies will find that this key writer's body of work has been discussed from a rich variety of perspectives. Many books have treated Defoe's novels, his economic or religious writing, his journalism and history, and the view of man or empire or the ideas of fiction embodied in his many texts, to name only a few key topics. However, despite the fact that a case can be made (and is made in this study) that Defoe "was England's most important poet between Dryde

The bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 0429481195 1283068974 9786613068972 1849404992 9781849404990 9781283068970 1855754568 9781855754560 6613068977 9780429481192 9781780495064 1780495064 0429905963 0367327546 0429920199 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Karnac Books

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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has also been awarded accolades for being the 'Father of Journalism', the most successful spy in British history, the precursor to contemporary depth psychologists, the most daring of early feminists, the most devious of confidence tricksters and fraudulent entrepreneurs, the unsurpassed travelogue presenter, the first spin-doctor and speech-writer to a king. Hurling his defiances against the Established Church and Roman Catholicism, he was also the intrepid upholder of dissenting beliefs.The author deploys his forensic skills as a distinguished criminal lawyer and reforming parliamentarian to present an intriguing and novel Freudian overview of all Defoe's major works.


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Transformations of the Supernatural : Problems of Representation in the Work of Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 383943775X 9783839437759 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion. »Schoenenbergers scholarship is valuable not only to Defoe studies, but also to the intellectual history of the eighteenth century.« James Hamby, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 30/1 (2019)

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