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Defoe's footprints : essays in honour of Maximillian E. Novak / edited by Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 11.
- UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731--Criticism and interpretation.
- Defoe, Daniel.
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731--Influence.
- Novak, Maximillian E.
- Genre:
- Critiques litteraires.
- Literary criticism.
- Festschriften.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher
- Defoe's silences / Stuart Sherman
- The atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe / Jayne Lewis
- Poetic footprints : some formal issues in Defoe's verse / J. Paul Hunter
- Mimesis/mimesis and the eighteenth-century British novel: representation and knowledge/ John Richetti
- Robinson Crusoe and the semiotic crisis of the eighteenth century / Robert Folkenflik
- Powerful affections : slaves, servants, and labours of love in Defoe's writing / Roxann Wheeler
- Defoe's "Black Prince" : elitism, capitalism, and cultural difference / Laura Brown
- "The project and the people" : Defoe on the South Sea bubble and the public good / Carl Fisher
- The writer as hero from Jonson to Fielding / Manuel Schonhorn
- Robinson Trousseau : Joyce's Defoe / Michael Seidel
- The novel as modern myth / John Bender.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- "Maximilian E. Novak: a bibliography" (p. [239]-249).
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9769-5
- OCLC:
- 979596345
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