Daniel Defoe : ambition & innovation /

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 write...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky [1986]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt130j1wh
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. THE BENT AND GENIUS OF THE AGE; 2. POETRY; 3. PAMPHLETS AND POLITICS; 4. THE HISTORIES; 5. THE HISTORICAL NOVELS; 6. CRIME AND ADVENTURE; 7. ROXANA; 8. MELTED DOWN, FILLED WITH WONDERS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.