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Wrestling with Defoe : approaches from a workshop on Defoe's prose
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ISBN: 8832345625 9788832345629 Year: 1997 Volume: 30 Publisher: Bologna: Cisalpino,


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Daniel defoe : dal saggio al romanzo
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ISBN: 8822101235 Year: 1984 Publisher: Firenze : La Nuova Italia,


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The Cambridge companion to Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 9780521858403 9780521675055 0521858402 0521675057 1139801295 1139002333 9781139002332 Year: 2009 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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Defoe's fiction and manliness : contrary men
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ISBN: 1317153464 1317153456 1282295268 9786612295263 0754697428 9780754697428 9780754656050 0754656055 9781282295261 9781315576299 9781317153443 9781317153450 1315576295 Year: 2009 Publisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently returned to the issues of manliness and its contrary effeminacy, this book reveals how his writings drew upon and repeatedly tested the complex and diverse range of discourses through which masculinity was discussed in the period.


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Defoe's footprints : essays in honour of Maximillian E. Novak
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ISBN: 1442697695 9781442697690 0802099211 9780802099211 9780802099211 Year: 2009 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press,

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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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Daniel Defoe : contrarian
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ISBN: 1442664495 9781442664494 9781442646100 1442646101 1442664509 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe's body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness.


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Defoe's Tour and early modern Britain : panorama of the nation
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ISBN: 1009106414 100911669X 1009098861 1009116495 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century travel writing. Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is constantly cited even now by students in practically every branch of history, and there are few topics essential to our understanding of the nation in the early modern period that do not show up in its pages. Historians since the late nineteenth century have looked to the Tour as one of the richest and most insightful works describing Britain in the lead-up to the Industrial Revolution, and critics and biographers of Defoe have regularly named it as among his most characteristic and central works. Indispensable for virtually any interdisciplinary approach to the nation in this period, this new study provides wide-reaching, up-to-date analysis of the content of the Tour, and of its methods, sources, form, and vast historical significance.


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Reflections on sentiment : essays in honor of George Starr
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ISBN: 161149589X 1611495881 9781611495898 9781611495898 9781611495881 9781611495904 1611495903 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newark : University of Delaware Press,

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As scholarly interest has turned to emotion and affect, Reflections on Sentiment offers examples of Enlightenment feeling both challenging and promoting the period's touted reason and realism. Essays explore the complex relation of thought and sentiment in discourses from moral treatises and religious debates to interrogations of gender and family relations, from fictional tests of boundaries between human and non-human species to innovations in the forms of poetry, the novel, and the literary marketplace itself.

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