Daniel Defoe : his life / Paula R. Backscheider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Defoe, Daniel.

Authors, English--18th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 671 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989]

Summary:

Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen--and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it. This is the definitive biography of one of eighteenth-century England's most influential figures--and one of the most prolific and widely read authors of all time

Contents:

Fire and plague

Merchant-rebel

Bankrupt

Recovery

Fugitive

Prison

Four hundred thousand words

The literary effort of a lifetime

New life

A terrible people

Political maelstrom

The goliath of the party

A team of writers

Six hundred thousand words

A discontented people

A penetrating eye

The whole world in motion

Projects and designs

Changes and disasters

Epilogue : bred in the bone.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 617-654.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0801837855

OCLC:

18739238