Transformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives : finding the thing itself / Maximillian E. Novak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novak, Maximillian E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731--Criticism and interpretation.

Defoe, Daniel.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark, [Delaware] : University of Delaware Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>Writer Daniel Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction in short stories, but in turning himself into a novel-length writer, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through patterns of language, imagery, and intellectual play. This book establishes the complexities and originality of Defoe as a writer.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Defoe as an Innovator of Fictional Form; 2 Picturing the Thing Itself, or Not; 3 The Unmentionable and the Ineffable in Defoe's Fiction; 4 Novel or Fictional Memoir; 5 Meatless Fridays; 6 Edenic Desires; 7 Strangely Surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe; 8 "Looking with Wonder upon the Sea"; 9 The Cave and the Grotto; 10 "The Sum of Humane Misery"?; 11 Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period Following the French Revolution; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61149-729-9

1-61149-528-8

1-61149-486-9