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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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The Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 9781316459546 9781107133099 9781107589759 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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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 Clarendon

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

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