Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iroquois Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: Memoirs of a cavalier. 1927
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iroquois Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: Memoirs of a cavalier
Author: Daniel DefoeThe Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: Memoirs of a cavalier
Author: Daniel DefoeTransformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives
Author: Maximillian E. NovakPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in Defoe’s work by probing his interest in rendering of reality (what Defoe called “the Thing itself”). Novak examines Defoe’s interest in the relationship between prose fiction and painting, as well as the various ways in which Defoe’s woks were read by contemporaries and by those novelists who attempted to imitate and comment upon his Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe decades after its publication. In this book, Novak attempts to consider the uniqueness and imaginativeness of various aspects of Defoe’s writings including his way of evoking the seeming inability of language to describe a vivid scene or moments of overwhelming emotion, his attraction to the fiction of islands and utopias, his gradual development of the concepts surrounding Crusoe’s cave, his fascination with the horrors of cannibalism, and some of the ways he attempted to defend his work and serious fiction in general. Most of all, Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives establishes the complexity and originality of Defoe as a writer of fiction.
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe
Author: Daniel DefoeThe Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe. 1927
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iroquois Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders. 1927
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iroquois Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Daniel Defoe
Author: Maximillian E. NovakPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199261543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country. Imprisoned many times, pilloried and reviled by his enemies, through it all he managed to produce some of the most significant literature of the eighteenth century. Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is the first biography to view Defoe's complex life through the angle of vision that is most important to us as modern readers--his career as a writer. Maximillian Novak, a leading authority on Defoe, ranges from the writer's earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death. Novak illuminates such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, novels that changed the course of fiction in their time and have remained towering classics to this day. And he reveals a writer who was a superb observer of his times--an age of dramatic historical, political, and social change. Indeed, through his many pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction, Defoe commented on everything from birth control to the price of coal, and from flying machines to the dangers of the plague. Beautifully and authoritatively written, this is the first serious, full-scale biography of Defoe to appear in a decade. It gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that lie behind some of the great works of English literature.
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: The fortunate mistress. 1927
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iroquois Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description