Daniel Defoe :: ambition & innovation /

In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a write...

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1. Verfasser: Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
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Zusammenfassung:In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive reading of books published in England, his understanding of the reading tastes of his contemporaries, and h.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (310 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813161839
0813161835

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