TY  - GEN
T1  - Daniel Defoe : ambition & innovation
A1  - Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 1986
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900344996
AB  - In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive reading of books published in England, his understanding of the reading tastes of his contemporaries, and h.
OP  - 310
CN  - PR3407
SN  - 9780813161839
SN  - 0813161835
SN  - 0813150841
SN  - 9780813150840
KW  - Defoe, Daniel, : 1661?-1731 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Defoe, Daniel, : 1661?-1731
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -