Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe

Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe JAMES T. BOULTON Professor of English Studies, University of Birmingham Paradoxically Defoe is diminished by his popularity as the author of a handful of important novels, since the remainder of his voluminous writings suffer undue neglect. Fully to understand him he should be taken whole but his authorship of over 50o publications — the Review, which normally appeared thrice weekly for over nine years, counting as one — renders this feat wellnigh impossible. The purpose of this selection, then, is to enable the reader to make or renew the acquain- tance of Defoe on some of his favourite topics such as trade and poli- tics, manners and morality, in poetry as well as in prose, and in works like A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal and Memoirs of a Cavalier which are characteristic blends of fact and fiction. Equipped with the insights possible from this sample, the reader — it is hoped — will return to the major novels with a keener appreciation of their distinctive quality and a livelier sense of their author and his defiant adherence to Reason Nature', and Experience'. Both as man and novelist Defoe has received a great deal of critical attention over the last 4o years. His language and rhetoric have, however, been relatively disregarded ; for this reason the introductory essay is devoted to these aspects of his achievement. Also issued in hard covers

Kiadó:

Cambridge University Press

Kiadás éve:

1975

ISBN:

0521099315

Kötés típusa:

ragasztott papír

Terjedelem:

286

Nyelv:

angol

Méret:

Szélesség: 13.50cm, Magasság: 20.00cm

Kategória:

Irodalom szépirodalom regény, novella, elbeszélés

Irodalom szépirodalom versek, versantológiák, eposzok

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