UID:
almafu_9958353486202883
Format:
1 online resource
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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1. Defoe’s Silences --
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2. The Atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe --
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3. Poetic Footprints: Some Formal Issues in Defoe’s Verse --
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4. Mimesis/mimesis and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel: Representation and Knowledge --
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5. Robinson Crusoe and the Semiotic Crisis of the Eighteenth --
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6. Powerful Affections: Slaves, Servants, and Labours of Love in Defoe’s Writing --
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7. Defoe’s ‘Black Prince’: Elitism, Capitalism, and Cultural Difference --
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8. ‘The Project and the People’: Defoe on the South Sea Bubble and the Public Good --
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9. The Writer as Hero from Jonson to Fielding --
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10. Robinson Trousseau: Joyce’s Defoe --
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11. The Novel as Modern Myth --
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Maximillian E. Novak: A Bibliography --
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Contributors --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442697690
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697690
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697690
