18th century English literature
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Daniel Defoe
Defoe and journalism
Defoe and satire
Defoe economic journalism
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English literary history
English novel
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Journal of the Plague Year
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Moll Flanders
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political pamphlets
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Robinson Crusoe
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Product details
- ISBN 9781119045304
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2015
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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
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.
