The Cambridge Companion To Daniel Defoe

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827751

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The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe by John Richetti Pdf

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.

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107043497

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The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe' by John Richetti Pdf

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

Author : Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521564883

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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 by Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493896

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The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell Pdf

A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.

Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828116

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The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by Adrian Poole Pdf

In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521429455

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The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel by John Richetti Pdf

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.

Author : Manuel Schonhorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521384520

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Defoe's Politics by Manuel Schonhorn Pdf

This study restores Defoe's writings and ideas to their seventeenth-century context.

Author : Nathan Gorelick
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535853156

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Daniel Defoe's Picaresque: From the News to the Novel by Nathan Gorelick Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Daniel Defoe's Picaresque: From the News to the Novel is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1704
Category : Storms
ISBN : NLS:B900062621

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The Storm by Daniel Defoe Pdf

Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521871198

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The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by Adrian Poole Pdf

A survey of the most important British novelists of the past 250 years, for students of British fiction.

Author : Daniel Cook,Nicholas Seager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108830195

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The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels by Daniel Cook,Nicholas Seager Pdf

The definitive guide to Swift's controversial satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, demonstrating its complexity and enduring legacy.

Author : J. Hammond
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333513282

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A Defoe Companion by J. Hammond Pdf

Defoe occupies a central place in the history of English literature. As the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders he can claim to be the creator of the first novels in English, and he was one of the earliest practitioners of the 'desert island' myth which has had such an influence on the human imagination. In A Journal of the Plague Year and A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain he forged a distinctive documentary style which deeply influenced later writers.

Author : Lawrence Manley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495555

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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London by Lawrence Manley Pdf

London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.

Author : Nicholas Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230344082

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Daniel Defoe: The Novels by Nicholas Marsh Pdf

Daniel Defoe's writings have bred controversy since their first appearance in the eighteenth century: 'Robinson Crusoe' fuels virulent disagreements among critics, while Defoe's two scandalous women, 'Moll Flanders' and 'Roxana', can still shock us and challenge the range of our sympathies. This essential study: - Takes a fresh look at these intriguing novels and leads the reader into close analysis of Defoe's texts, encouraging an open-minded approach to interpretation - Features chapters on the novels' openings, conscience and repentance, society and economics, women and patriarchy, and the use of 'outsider' narrators - Provides useful sections on 'Methods of Analysis' and 'Suggested Work' to aid independent study - Offers historical and literary background, a sample of critical views, and suggestions for further reading Equipping students with the critical and analytical skills with which to approach Defoe's work, this inspiring guide helps readers to appreciate the brilliance of the author's writing and to enjoy the complexity of his fictional creations for themselves.