The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Literary Prefaces to the Various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, Etc.

The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Literary Prefaces to the Various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, Etc.
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9783385135246
ISBN-13 : 3385135249
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Literary Prefaces to the Various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, Etc. by : Daniel De Foe

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives

Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781611494860
ISBN-13 : 1611494869
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives by : Maximillian E. Novak

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.

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781134546510
ISBN-13 : 1134546513
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Daniel Defoe by : Pat Rogers

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

The Novels and Miscellanceous Works of Daniel De Foe

The Novels and Miscellanceous Works of Daniel De Foe
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9783368739393
ISBN-13 : 3368739395
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Novels and Miscellanceous Works of Daniel De Foe by : Daniel De Foe

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9781684483327
ISBN-13 : 1684483328
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World by : Daniel Defoe

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.