Richetti, John
The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography
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
Avainsanat: Daniel Defoe; literary biography; 18th century English literature; travel writing genre; Robinson Crusoe; Roxana; English novel; Defoe and journalism; Defoe economic journalism; political pamphlets; Defoe and satire; English literary history; Moll Flanders; Journal of the Plague Year, 18th Century English Literature, Literary Criticism & History, 18th Century English Literature, Literary Criticism & History
- Tekijä(t)
- Richetti, John
- Julkaisija
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2005
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
- Sivumäärä
- 424 sivua
- Kategoria
- Henkilöhistoria
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781119118008
- Painetun ISBN
- 9781119045304