The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe

A survey of Defoe's career and writings aimed at students, with readings of his major works.

A survey of Defoe's career and writings aimed at students, with readings of his major works.

Autorentext
John Richetti is A. M. Rosenthal Professor (Emeritus) of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Klappentext
A survey of Defoe's career and writings aimed at students, with readings of his major works.


Zusammenfassung
This volume surveys the wide range of Defoe's fiction and non-fiction, and assesses his importance as writer and thinker. The man who was once pilloried for his writings emerges now as a key figure in the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century.

Inhalt
Introduction John Richetti; 1. Defoe: the man in the works Paula Backscheider; 2. Defoe's political and religious journalism Maximillian Novak; 3. Defoe, commerce, and empire Srinivas Aravamudan; 4. Defoe and criminal fiction Hal Gladfelder; 5. Money and character in Defoe's fiction Deidre Lynch; 6. Defoe's Tour and the identity of Britain Pat Rogers; 7. Defoe as narrative innovator John Richetti; 8. Gender and fiction in Moll Flanders and Roxana Ellen Pollak; 9. Defoe and London Cynthia Wall; 10. Robinson Crusoe and the varieties of fictional experience Michael Seidel; 11. Defoe: satirist and moralist John McVeagh; 12. Defoe and poetic tradition J. Paul Hunter; Guide to further reading; Index.

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