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Defoe's America

Author : Dennis Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139488252
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Defoe's America written by Dennis Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americas appear as an evocative setting in more than half of Daniel Defoe's novels, and often offer a new beginning for his characters. In the first full-length study of Defoe and colonialism, Dennis Todd explores why the New World loomed so large in Defoe's imagination. By focusing on the historical contexts that informed Defoe's depiction of American Indians, African slaves, and white indentured servants, Dennis Todd investigates the colonial assumptions that shaped his novels and, at the same time, uncovers how Defoe used details of the American experience in complex, often figurative ways to explore the psychological bases of the profound conversions and transformations that his heroes and heroines undergo. And by examining what Defoe knew and did not know about America, what he falsely believed and what he knowingly falsified, Defoe's America probes the doubts, hesitancies, and contradictions he had about the colonial project he so fervently promoted.

Defoe’s Major Fiction

Author : Elizabeth R. Napier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611496144
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Defoe’s Major Fiction written by Elizabeth R. Napier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the pervasive concern with narrativity and self-construction that marks Defoe’s first-person fictional narratives. Defoe’s fictions focus obsessively and elaborately on the act of storytelling—not only in his creation of idiosyncratic voices preoccupied with the telling (and often the concealing) of their own life stories but also in his narrators’ repeated adversion to other, untold stories that compete for attention with their own. Defoe’s narratives raise profound questions about selfhood and agency (as well as demonstrate competing attitudes about narration) in his fictive worlds. His canon exhibits a broad range of first-person fictional accounts, from pseudo-memoir (A Journal of the Plague Year, Memoirs of a Cavalier) to criminal autobiography (Moll Flanders) to confession (Roxana), and the narrators of these accounts (secretive, compulsive, fractive) exhibit an array of resistances to the telling of their life stories. Such experiments with narration evince Defoe’s deep involvement in projects of self-description and -delineation, as he interrogates the boundaries of the self and dramatizes the arduousness of self-accounting. Defoe’s fictions are emphatically consciousness-centered and the significance of such a focus to the development of the novel is patently as great as is his “realistic” style. Defoe’s narrative project, in fact, challenges current views on the moment at which inwardness and interiority begin, as Lukács argued, to comprise the subject matter of the novel, implicitly attributing to identity and consciousness a place of signal and complex importance in the new genre.

Daniel Defoe in Context

Author : Albert J. Rivero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108871925
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Defoe in Context written by Albert J. Rivero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative in its structure and approach, Daniel Defoe in Context contains 42 essays by leading scholars illuminating the life, times, and world of Daniel Defoe. Defoe is one of the most important literary figures in English history, thanks not only to his pioneering novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, but also to his notable works in journalism, travel writing, conduct literature, and verse, both satiric and serious. Written with general readers and students in mind, the essays in this volume provide up-to-date knowledge about eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history in a high quality, clearly written, but completely accessible form. Together they demonstrate the ways not only in which Defoe's world shaped his writing, but also in which Defoe's writings profoundly affected his world, and therefore our world.

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe

Author : Nicholas Seager
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198827172
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe written by Nicholas Seager and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook. The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.

Defoe and Fictional Time

Author : Paul K. Alkon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337714
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Defoe and Fictional Time written by Paul K. Alkon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defoe and Fictional Time shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and above all the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading. Paul K. Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction, with glances at Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and second a theoretical discussion of time in fiction. Arguing that eighteenth-century views of history account for the strange chronologies in Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Alkon explores Defoe's innovative use of narrative sequences, frequency, spatial form, chronology, settings, tempo, and the reader's cumulative memories of a text. Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is the first portrayal of a public duration—passing time shared by an entire population during a crisis—ranking Defoe among the most creative writers who have explored the way in which fictional time may influence reading time.

Robinson Crusoe

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 300 years ago this fascinating novel was published with probably the most long title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. For hundreds of years this book impresses the imagination by displaying of courage, ingenuity, vitality of the person, caught in such a binding that it is difficult to imagine. But still it is so exciting to imagine, while reading a book in a cozy room. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Kolomoets provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

The Novels of Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 10

Author : John McVeagh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040250319
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Novels of Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 10 written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship. This work contains editorial material that includes a substantial introduction to each novel, explanatory endnotes, textual notes, and a consolidated index.

Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity

Author : Christopher Borsing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317247620
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity written by Christopher Borsing and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like many of this age, had religious difficulties with Locke’s empiricist analysis of human identity. In particular, it examines how Defoe explores competitive individualism as a social threat while also demonstrating the literary and psychological fiction of any concept of a separated, lone identity. This foreshadows Michel Foucault’s assertion that the idea of man is ‘a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge’. The monograph’s engagement with Defoe’s destabilization of any definition or image of personal identity across a wide range of genres – including satire, political propaganda, history, conduct literature, travel narrative, spiritual autobiography, piracy and history, economic and scientific literature, rogue biography, scandalous and secret history, dystopian documentary, science fiction and apparition narrative - is an important and original contribution to the literary and cultural understanding of the early eighteenth century as it interrogates and challenges modern presumptions of individual identity.

Defoe and the New Sciences

Author : Ilse Vickers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521024365
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Defoe and the New Sciences written by Ilse Vickers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the principles of Baconian science, and their influence on the thought and writing of Daniel Defoe.

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009301969
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript habits.

Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives

Author : Maximillian E. Novak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494869
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives written by Maximillian E. Novak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in Defoe’s work by probing his interest in rendering of reality (what Defoe called “the Thing itself”). Novak examines Defoe’s interest in the relationship between prose fiction and painting, as well as the various ways in which Defoe’s woks were read by contemporaries and by those novelists who attempted to imitate and comment upon his Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe decades after its publication. In this book, Novak attempts to consider the uniqueness and imaginativeness of various aspects of Defoe’s writings including his way of evoking the seeming inability of language to describe a vivid scene or moments of overwhelming emotion, his attraction to the fiction of islands and utopias, his gradual development of the concepts surrounding Crusoe’s cave, his fascination with the horrors of cannibalism, and some of the ways he attempted to defend his work and serious fiction in general. Most of all, Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives establishes the complexity and originality of Defoe as a writer of fiction.

Defoe's Review 1704-13, Volume 8 (1711-12), Part I

Author : John McVeagh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040247423
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Defoe's Review 1704-13, Volume 8 (1711-12), Part I written by John McVeagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion. This series is the first complete scholarly edition of the entire run of Defoe's Review. It is fully reset and supported by full editorial apparatus.

Defoe's Footprints

Author : Robert M. Maniquis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099211
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Defoe's Footprints written by Robert M. Maniquis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Age of Silver

Author : Ning Ma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606576
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Silver written by Ning Ma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include The Plum in the Golden Vase (China), Don Quixote (Spain), The Life of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of world literature and historical transcultural relations.

Defoe’s Early Life

Author : F. Bastian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134904976X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Defoe’s Early Life written by F. Bastian and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 4

Author : W R Owens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040249957
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 4 written by W R Owens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings reveal the range of his intellectual interests. His "Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain", which came out between 1724 and 1726, drew on Defoe's travels throughout England and Scotland - often as a political agent and spy.

The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe Vol 7

Author : W R Owens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040246427
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe Vol 7 written by W R Owens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers together a number of Daniel Defoe's non-fiction writings on political and economic issues. The selection is designed to reflect the numerous facets of Defoe's economic and political thought. Each of the eight volumes includes an introduction.