Maximillian E. Novak

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

Finding The Thing Itself

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Produktbeschreibung

Writer Daniel Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction in short stories, but in turning himself into a novel-length writer, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through patterns of language, imagery, and intellectual play. This book establishes the complexities and originality of Defoe as a writer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781611494853
• ISBN-10: 1611494850
• Artikelnr.: 40848079

Autorenporträt

By Maximillian E. Novak

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1:
Defoe as an Innovator of Fictional Form Chapter 2: Picturing the Thing
Itself, or Not: Defoe, Painting, Prose Fiction, and the Arts of Describing
Chapter 3: The Unmentionable and the Ineffable in Defoe's Fiction Chapter
4: Novel or Fictional Memoir: The Scandalous Publication of Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 5: Meatless Fridays: CAnnibalism as Theme and Metaphor in Robinson
Crusoe Chapter 6: Edenic Desires: Robinson Crusoe, The Robinsonade, and
Utopian Forms Chapter 7: Strangely Surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe: A Response
to David Fishelov's "Robinson Crusoe, 'The Other,' and the Poetics of
Surprise" Chapter 8: "Looking with Wonder Upon the Sea" : Defoe's Maritime
Fictions, Robinson Crusoe, and "The Curious Age We Live in" Chapter 9: The
Cave and the Grotto: Imagined Interiors and Realist Form in Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 10: "The SUme of Humane Misery?": Ambiguities of Exile in Defoe's
Fiction Chapter 11: Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by
British Novelists during the Period following the French Revolution:
Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, The Demale Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's
Forester, and Frances Burney's The Wanderer Afterword Bibliography About
the Author