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 Crusoe
* Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric
* Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant
* Now available in paperback
विषयसूची
Preface vi
Acknowledgments x
1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator, Writer 1
2 Early Writings 1697-1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems 31
3 Political Journalism: 1697-1710 70
4 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians 113
5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714-31 143
6 Robinson Crusoe 174
7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure 213
8 Crime and Narrative 234
9 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment 268
10 History, Facts, and Literature 301
11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715-31 337
Notes 362
Bibliography 390
Index 395
लेखक के बारे में
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.
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