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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.
National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Defoe, Daniel, --- Defoe, Daniel --- Fefoe, Daniel --- De Fo, Daniel' --- De Foe, Daniel --- Defo, Daniel --- Defo, Danielo --- Defo, Daniyel --- English gentleman --- Gabriel John --- Gentleman --- John, Gabriel --- L. M. --- Lay-hand in the country --- Lover of old England --- Lover of truth --- Merchant --- Moreton, Andrew --- Даниель Дефо --- דעפא, דאניעל --- דפו, דניאל --- דפו, דניאל, --- דיפו, דניאל --- דיפו, דניאל, --- דיפואה, --- Johnson, Charle, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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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
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Poetic works. --- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Defoe, Daniel, --- Defoe, Daniel --- Fefoe, Daniel --- De Fo, Daniel' --- De Foe, Daniel --- Defo, Daniel --- Defo, Danielo --- Defo, Daniyel --- English gentleman --- Gabriel John --- Gentleman --- John, Gabriel --- L. M. --- Lay-hand in the country --- Lover of old England --- Lover of truth --- Merchant --- Moreton, Andrew --- Даниель Дефо --- דעפא, דאניעל --- דפו, דניאל --- דפו, דניאל, --- דיפו, דניאל --- דיפו, דניאל, --- דיפואה, --- Johnson, Charle, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poetic works.
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