Daniel Defoe, Mary Boulton Ed., Mary Ed Boulton

Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe

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Produktbeschreibung

A insightful selection of Daniel Defoe's voluminous writings, which have often been neglected in favour of his more famous novels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780521099318
• ISBN-10: 0521099315
• Artikelnr.: 26728597

Autorenporträt

Daniel Foe was born in London c. 1660, the son of James, a prosperous chandler and Presbyterian dissenter. He lived through the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666, which left only his and two other houses standing in the area. As a general merchant, he was able to buy a country estate and a ship, though he was nearly always in debt. He joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, but was pardoned. However, he spent a spell in debtor's prison, after which he travelled Europe and Scotland, returning in 1695, when, now surnamed Defoe, he began serving as a Commissioner of the Glass Duty and, in 1696, running a brick and tile factory. He became a prolific pamphleteer, which led him to the pillory and Newgate Prison. In exchange for his liberty, he agreed to work as an intelligence agent for the Tories, then as a propagandist for the Whigs, and then as a mouthpiece for the Anglo-Scottish Union. His novels and non-fiction books occupied him from the mid 1710s until his death in 1731.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgment
Note on the text
Defoe's life: a chronological survey
Introduction
The Selections: from An Essay Upon Projects
An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army...
From The True-Born Englishman
From Legion's Memorial
The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters
From A Hymn to the Pillory
Letter to Robert Harley
From A Review
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal
Letters to Robert Harley
And What if the Pretender Should Come?
An Appeal to Honour and Justice
From The Family Instructor
Letter to Charles de la Faye
From Memoirs of a Cavalier
From The Complete English Tradesman
From The History of the Pyrates: of Captain Bellamy
From The Compleat English Gentleman
Letter to Henry Baker
Notes.