UID:
almafu_9959326920802883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 406 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780470754665
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0470754664
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1280237422
,
9781280237423
Series Statement:
Blackwell critical biographies
Content:
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. The book provides a commentary on most of his voluminous political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions. All these works are situated in the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth century in which Defoe was an important and active participant. The biography focuses on Defoe's life and mind as it appears in his writing, and emphasises his distinctive style and rhetoric.
Note:
Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator, Writer -- 2 Early Writings 1697 ... 1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems -- 3 Political Journalism: 1697 ... 1710 -- 4 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians -- 5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714 ... 31 -- 6 Robinson Crusoe -- 7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure -- 8 Crime and Narrative -- 9 Roxana:A Novel of Crime and Punishment -- 10 History, Facts, and Literature -- 11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715 ... 31 -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Richetti, John J. Life of Daniel Defoe. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005 ISBN 0631195297
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780631195290
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470754665
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470754665
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470754665
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470754665
