Daniel Defoe

1. Introduction
Katherine Clark

2. Establishing a Voice: Defoe’s First Steps from Failed Tradesman to Successful Author
Katherine Clark

3. ‘The Mushroom and the Oak’: Dissent and the Church of England, 1697–1705
Katherine Clark

4.
Jure Divino: Defoe, Locke and Milton, and Political Theory
Katherine Clark

5. Defoe and the Union of 1707: Constructing a British Identity
Katherine Clark

6. Correspondence, Credit, and Commerce: Defoe and the Instability of Meaning, 1709–1713
Katherine Clark

7. Robinson Crusoe: Orthodox Penitent
Katherine Clark

8. The Perils of Consumption and the Decline of Family Government
Katherine Clark

9. Defoe’s Historical Vision: Commerce and Gentility in the 1720s
Katherine Clark

10. The Devil and Daniel Defoe: History in a Heterodox Age
Katherine Clark

11. Conclusion
Katherine Clark

Nyckelord: History, Social History, Cultural History, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland