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A polite exchange of bullets : the duel and the English gentleman, 1750-1850
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ISBN: 1280488875 9786613584106 1846158818 1843835711 Year: 2010 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press,

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'A Polite Exchange of Bullets' explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about honour changed over time.


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Defoe's major fiction
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ISBN: 1611496144 1611496136 1611496152 9781611496147 9781611496130 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newark

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This book examines the concern with narrativity and self-construction in Defoe's first-person fictional narratives. Arguing that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on issues of moral accountability and self-definition, it addresses the need to examine more sharply Defoe's novelistic achievement in the realm of character and narration and those aesthetic and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.


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The Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 1107133092 1316459543 1009301969 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Daniel Defoe in Context
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ISBN: 1108871925 1108870368 110887214X 1108836712 9781108871921 9781108870368 9781108872140 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Defoe's narratives: : situations and structures
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ISBN: 0198120672 9780198120674 Year: 1975 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,


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The Cambridge companion to Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 9780521858403 9780521675055 0521858402 0521675057 1139801295 1139002333 9781139002332 Year: 2008 Volume: *123 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wide range of Defoe's fiction and non-fiction, and assesses his importance as writer and thinker. Leading scholars discuss key issues in Defoe's novels, and show how 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.


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Defoe's America
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ISBN: 9780521195812 9780511762048 9781107422476 9780511918278 0511918275 9780511916304 0511916302 0511762046 0521195810 1107205085 0511849060 1282818058 9786612818059 0511917295 0511914504 0511912692 1107422477 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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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.

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