Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Richetti, John J[Mitwirkender]

Titel

The Cambridge companion to Daniel Defoe

Ist Teil von

• Cambridge companions to literature

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Link zum Volltext

• Cambridge University Press online books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wide range of Defoe's fiction and non-fiction, and assesses his importance as writer and thinker. Leading scholars discuss key issues in Defoe's novels, and show how the man who was once pilloried for his writings emerges now as a key figure in the literature and culture of the early eighteenth century.