The Life of Daniel Defoe

A Critical Biography

Reeks: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

John Richetti

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€28,99

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.

Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe

Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric

Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant

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