Christopher Borsing

Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on close reading of a representative range of Defoe's writing, Borsing presents a study of Defoe's engagement with the concept of personal identity, exploring his construction of personae, his forays into different literary genres and the role of religion in his philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317247616
• Artikelnr.: 45698669

Autorenporträt

Christopher Borsing teaches in the School of English, TCD and in the Open Education Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland. After a varied career as building labourer, kitchen porter, itinerant fruit picker, Tarot card reader, jobbing gardener and professional salesman of educational resources, he entered higher education in 2003 as a mature student at Trinity College Dublin where he was elected a Scholar, awarded a first-class degree in English Studies and conferred with his PhD.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'The True-Born Englishman': The Construction of a Persona
2. The Family Instructor: One-sided dialogue
3. Robinson Crusoe: Spoken by an Other
4. Captain Singleton: Incommensurable Exchanges
5. Questionable Identities: Moll Flanders and Roxana
6. Not Imaginary but Fictitious: Defoe and the Apparitions of Fiction