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The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography

By John Richetti

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2006
ISBN
9780631195290, 0631195297
LCC
PR3406 .R53 2005
Open Library ID
OL22721752M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1501672 bytes)
Series
Blackwell Critical Biographies
Pages
419\419
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

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. The book provides a commentary on most of his voluminous political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions. All these works are situated in the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth century in which Defoe was an important and active participant. The biography focuses on Defoe’s life and mind as it appears in his writing, and emphasises his distinctive style and rhetoric.

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