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
ISBN: | 9781119045304 |
Publication date: | 31st July 2015 |
Author: | John (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Richetti |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell an imprint of John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 432 pages |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies |
Genres: |
Biography: writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: general |