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ISBN: 9781442697690

Content: In Defoe's Footprints, essays by prominent scholars of eighteenth-century literature salute Maximillian E. Novak's influence upon the study of Daniel Defoe. Best known today as the author of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was a prolific writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who wrote novels, essays, pamphlets, and poems. Widely extending Novak's perspectives, this volume explores Defoe's place in the English novel and in literary developments of mimesis, realism, and popular mythology.The contributors locate Defoe in new ways within the complex symbolism and discourse of a turbulent world of burgeoning capitalism, Protestantism, imperialism, and economic speculation. 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , 1. Defoe’s Silences -- , 2. The Atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe -- , 3. Poetic Footprints: Some Formal Issues in Defoe’s Verse -- , 4. Mimesis/mimesis and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel: Representation and Knowledge -- , 5. Robinson Crusoe and the Semiotic Crisis of the Eighteenth -- , 6. Powerful Affections: Slaves, Servants, and Labours of Love in Defoe’s Writing -- , 7. Defoe’s ‘Black Prince’: Elitism, Capitalism, and Cultural Difference -- , 8. ‘The Project and the People’: Defoe on the South Sea Bubble and the Public Good -- , 9. The Writer as Hero from Jonson to Fielding -- , 10. Robinson Trousseau: Joyce’s Defoe -- , 11. The Novel as Modern Myth -- , Maximillian E. Novak: A Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442697690

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697690

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Format: 1 online resource (280 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9781442697690 (e-book)

Series Statement: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Note: Includes index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Defoe's footprints : essays in honour of Maximillian E. Novak. Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, c2009 ISBN 9780802099211

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-4426-9769-5

Series Statement: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Content: 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.

Note: "Maximilian E. Novak: a bibliography" (p. [239]-249). , Introduction / Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher -- Defoe's silences / Stuart Sherman -- The atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe / Jayne Lewis -- Poetic footprints : some formal issues in Defoe's verse / J. Paul Hunter -- Mimesis/mimesis and the eighteenth-century British novel: representation and knowledge/ John Richetti -- Robinson Crusoe and the semiotic crisis of the eighteenth century / Robert Folkenflik -- Powerful affections : slaves, servants, and labours of love in Defoe's writing / Roxann Wheeler -- Defoe's "Black Prince" : elitism, capitalism, and cultural difference / Laura Brown -- "The project and the people" : Defoe on the South Sea bubble and the public good / Carl Fisher -- The writer as hero from Jonson to Fielding / Manuel Schonhorn -- Robinson Trousseau : Joyce's Defoe / Michael Seidel -- The novel as modern myth / John Bender. , Also available in print version. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-9921-1

Language: English

Keywords: Critiques litteraires. ; Literary criticism. ; Festschriften. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Festschriften. ; Literary criticism.

DOI: 10.3138/9781442697690