Defoe S Footprints

Author : Robert M. Maniquis,Carl Fisher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099211

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Defoe's Footprints by Robert M. Maniquis,Carl Fisher Pdf

In Defoe's Footprints, essays by prominent scholars of eighteenth-century literature salute Maximillian E. Novak's influence upon the study of Daniel Defoe. Best known today as the author of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was a prolific writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who wrote novels, essays, pamphlets, and poems. Widely extending Novak's perspectives, this volume explores Defoe's place in the English novel and in literary developments of mimesis, realism, and popular mythology. The contributors locate Defoe in new ways within the complex symbolism and discourse of a turbulent world of burgeoning capitalism, Protestantism, imperialism, and economic speculation. With attention to Defoe's neglected writings as well as to his important works, this volume uncovers his distance from and influence on modern literature, paying tribute to Maximillian E. Novak by presenting new ideas about, and new readings of, Daniel Defoe.

Author : Sean D. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192573407

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Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries by Sean D. Moore Pdf

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.

Author : George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marton, Searle & Rivington
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Hebrides
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048093020

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Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland) by George Birkbeck Norman Hill Pdf

Author : George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4057664619143

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Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland) by George Birkbeck Norman Hill Pdf

"Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland)" by George Birkbeck Norman Hill Samuel Johnson, often called Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. This book is a different sort of biography of this important historical figure as it provides a travelogue of sorts of the different locations in Scotland Johnson set foot.

Author : Nicholas Seager,J. A. Downie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198827177

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The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe by Nicholas Seager,J. A. Downie Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook. The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781512402223

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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Pdf

The only survivor of a shipwreck during a slaving expedition, plantation-owner Robinson Crusoe is forced to fight for survival on a deserted Caribbean island. At first he curses his fate, but after a religious vision he comes to believe that he has been spared by merciful Providence. Cut off from civilization, he tries to rebuild a life for himself as best he can. It is only when he finds footprints on the island that he realizes he is not alone after all. Crusoe rescues a prisoner from a band of cannibals, and the man becomes his loyal companion. Together Crusoe and Friday deal with everything from cannibals to mutineers as they try to find a way off the island. First published in 1719, this is an unabridged version of English author Daniel Defoe's first novel.

Author : E. Larrissy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230627444

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Blake and Modern Literature by E. Larrissy Pdf

William Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.

Author : John William Kuckuk
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1469745151

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Out of the Cocoon by John William Kuckuk Pdf

An attempt at a new story of our emergence from the violence of the ancient cities. Those cities spun the cocoon in which our civilization matured. The human self is like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. In this study author and religious scholar John William Kuckuk traces the path of human evolution and what it means for the world today. He examines the advantages our ancestors had that helped them survive, considering how the brain developed. From Greek and biblical beginnings the human self grew more self-conscious as Europe developed. Through the Renaissance, the late Middle Ages, the Reformation and the Enlightenment, our culture developed a new appreciation of the human self. He also relates how philosophy, media, and religion steered the course of Western history and how culture continues to evolve. The complex dynamics among species, peoples, and schools of thought have led to violence, misunderstandings, and the repression of the human spirit. As humanity continues to evolve, we can work toward a better future by understanding our past.

Author : Mihai I. Spariosu,Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847000167

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Exploring Humanity by Mihai I. Spariosu,Jörn Rüsen Pdf

The old humanistic model, aiming at universalism, ecumenism, and the globalization of various Western systems of values and beliefs, is no longer adequate – even if it pleads for an ever-wider inclusion of other cultural perspectives and for intercultural dialogue.In contrast, it would be wise to retain a number of its assumptions and practices – which it incidentally shares with humanistic models outside the Western world. We must now reconsider and remap it in terms of a larger, global reference frame. This anthology does just that, thus contributing to a new field of study and practice that could be called »intercultural humanism«.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1853260452

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Pdf

The adventures of Robinson Crusoe who was marooned on a desert island for twenty years.

Author : W R Owens,P N Furbank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000161823

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Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 6 by W R Owens,P N Furbank Pdf

The publication of the 44-volume Works of Daniel Defoe continues with this collection of Defoe's satirical poetry and fantasy writings, and writings on the supernatural.

Author : Elizabeth R. Napier
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442664326

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Falling into Matter by Elizabeth R. Napier Pdf

Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth R. Napier argues that despite an increasing emphasis on the need to present ideas in corporeal terms, early fiction writers continued to register spiritual and moral reservations about the centrality of the body to human and imaginative experience. Drawing on six works of early English fiction — Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Napier examines how authors grappled with technical and philosophical issues of the body, questioning its capacity for moral action, its relationship to individual freedom and dignity, and its role in the creation of art. Falling into Matter charts the course of the early novel as its authors engaged formally, stylistically, and thematically with the increasingly insistent role of the body in the new genre.

Author : Michael B. Prince
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813943664

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The Shortest Way with Defoe by Michael B. Prince Pdf

A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected for 300 years. By locating Defoe's nemesis and discovering what he represented and how Defoe fought him, Michael Prince's book opens the way to a new account of Defoe's emergence as a novelist. The book begins with Defoe’s conviction for seditious libel for penning a pamphlet called The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). A question of biography segues into questions of theology and intellectual history and of formal analysis; these questions in turn require close attention to the early reception of Defoe's works, especially by those who hated or suspected him. Prince aims to recover the way of reading Defoe that his enemies considered accurate. Thus, the book rethinks the positions represented in Defoe's ambiguous alternation and mimicking of narrative and editorial voices in his tracts, proto-novels, and novels. By examining Defoe's early publications alongside Robinson Crusoe, Prince shows that Defoe traveled through nonrealist, nonhistorical genres on the way to discovering the form of prose fiction we now call the novel. Moreover, a climate (or figure) of extreme religious intolerance and political persecution required Defoe always to seek refuge in literary disguise. And, religious convictions aside, Defoe's practice as a writer found him inhabiting forms known for their covert deism.

Author : Mary-Ann Constantine,Dafydd Johnston
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708325919

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Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt' by Mary-Ann Constantine,Dafydd Johnston Pdf

A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.

Author : Daniel Defoe Defoe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684480838

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The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Defoe Pdf

Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.