UID:
almafu_9959228587702883
Format:
1 online resource (205 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-3775-X
Series Statement:
Lettre
Content:
Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion.
Content:
»Schoenenbergers scholarship is valuable not only to Defoe studies, but also to the intellectual history of the eighteenth century.« James Hamby, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 30/1 (2019)
Note:
Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 1. Introduction 7 2. Daniel Defoe's Supernatural Tracts and Contemporary Supernaturalism: Problems of Language and Evidence 35 3. Defoe's Play with the "As If": Fiction, Delusion and Imagination 69 4. Describing Emotional Conflict and Continuity in Defoe's Narratives Journal of the Plague Year, Robinson Crusoe and Roxana 107 5. Frames of Knowledge in Daniel Defoe's Story-Telling 131 6. Conclusion 173 7. Bibliography 179
,
In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-3775-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.14361/9783839437759
