John Richetti

The Life of Daniel Defoe (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Biography

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. * Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe * Places emphasis on Defoe's distinctive style and rhetoric * Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant * Now available in paperback

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405150347
• Artikelnr.: 38407297

Autorenporträt

John Richetti is A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the eighteenth-century English novel and eighteenth-century philosophical prose, including The English Novel in History: 1700-1780 (1999), Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (1983), Defoe's Narratives (1975), and Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739 (1969). He has edited Robinson Crusoe (2003), among other titles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vi
Acknowledgments x
1 Dissenter, Merchant, Speculator,Writer 1
2 Early Writings 1697-1703: Projects, Dissent, Poems 31
3 Political Journalism: 1697-1710 70
4 Political Agent and Journalist: Queen Anne to the Hanoverians 113
5 Moral, Social, and Economic Writings 1714-31 143
6 Robinson Crusoe 174
7 Travel, Politics, and Adventure 213
8 Crime and Narrative 234
9 Roxana: A Novel of Crime and Punishment 268
10 History, Facts, and Literature 301
11 Political Journalist and Moral Censor: 1715-31 337
Notes 362
Bibliography 390
Index 395

Rezensionen

"Richetti reminds us why so many of Defoe's works arestill worth reading ... [The Life of Daniel Defoe] is awelcome addition to the family of biographies trying to renderthree-dimensional the man behind so many voices."
Studies In English Literature 1500-1900

"Richetti does a remarkable job."
18th-Century Studies

"Richetti's contributions to the study of 18th century fictionhave established him among the foremost critics...he has beenbrilliant in his treatment of Defoe."
1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early ModernEra

"Richetti conscientiously explains the political controversiesthat possessed Defoe ... When he reaches his chapters onDefoe's novels you get the eloquent condensation of hisexpertise."
London Review of Books

"[Richetti] brings us closer than any previous biographerto the personality that 'must have been lurking somewherebehind the various voices that he projected' over forty yearsof writing. This is an urbane, well informed, and interestingaccount, not only of Defoe but of the entire Defoeenterprise." Scriblerian

"Richetti conscientiously explains the political controversiesthat possessed Defoe ... When he reaches his chapters onDefoe's novels you get the eloquent condensation of hisexpertise."--London Review of Books

"Richetti reminds us why so many of Defoe's worksare still worth reading ... [The Life of Daniel Defoe]is a welcome addition to the family of biographies trying to renderthree-dimensional the man behind so manyvoices."--Studies In English Literature1500-1900"Richetti does a remarkable job."--18th-CenturyStudies

"Richetti's contributions to the study of 18th century fictionhave established him among the foremost critics...he has beenbrilliant in his treatment of Defoe."--1650-1850 Ideas,Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era"Richetti] brings us closer than any previous biographerto the personality that 'must have been lurking somewherebehind the various voices that he projected' over forty yearsof writing. This is an urbane, well informed, and interestingaccount, not only of Defoe but of the entire Defoeenterprise."--Scriblerian