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
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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
เกี่ยวกับผู้แต่ง
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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