Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoewith his Vision of theAngelickWorld, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoes thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoes 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period. See more
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Weight: 472g
Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
Publication Date: 22 Apr 2022
Publisher: Bucknell University PressU.S.
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781684483303
About Daniel Defoe
MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published widely on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature has edited a number of volumes in the California Dryden has written five books on Daniel Defoe and is a general editor of the Stoke Newington Edition of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. IRVING N. ROTHMAN who passed away in April 2019 was a professor of English at the University of Houston where he had taught since 1967. He was one of the general editors of the Stoke Newington Edition of the Writings of Daniel Defoe and edited or coedited three volumes including The Political History of the Devil and two volumes of The Family Instructor. MANUEL SCHONHORN who passed away in April 2021 was a professor of English emeritus at Southern Illinois University. His books include Defoes General History of the Pirates and Defoes Politics: Parliament Power Kingship and Robinson Crusoe. He published articles on Defoe Pope Fielding Sterne Austen Twain and Hemingway was the recipient of several fellowships and awards including the Clark LibraryUCLA Fellow Huntington Library Fellow and Newberry LibraryBritish Academy Exchange Fellow and was a member of the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture.