Daniel Defoe : the critical heritage / edited by Pat Rogers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogers, Pat, 1938- editor.

Series:

The Critical Heritage Series.

The critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Defoe, Daniel.

Physical Description:

Online resource (xi, 228 pages).

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; General Editor's Preface; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; NOTE ON THE TEXT; 1 Contemporary comments on Defoe; (a) The True-Born Hugonot, 1703; (b) Reflections upon The Shortest Way, 1703; (c) JOHN DUNTON, 1705; (d) An Equivalent for De Foe, 1706; (e) JOHN CLARK, 1708-9; (f) Remarks on a Scandalous Libel, 1713; (g) JOHN OLDMIXON, 1714; (h) Read's Weekly Journal, September 1718; 2 POPE, SWIFT and the Scriblerians on Defoe; (a) SWIFT, 1709; (b) SWIFT, November 1710; (c) JOHN GAY, 1711; (d) POPE, 1729; (e) POPE, 1729

(f) SPENCE: Observations, c. 1740(g) RICHARD SAVAGE, 1729; (h) Grub-street Journal, April 1731; 3 A satire on Robinson Crusoe, 1719; 4 A biographic entry, 1723; 5 The mid-century view, 1753; 6 ROUSSEAU on Robinson Crusoe, 1762; 7 The close of the century; (a) Notice in Monthly Review, March 1775; (b) Notice in Gentleman s Magazine, May 1783; (c) Notice in Monthly Review, May 1784; (d) Notes in Gentlemans Magazine, November-December 1785; (e) Note in Gentlemans Magazine, November 1789; (f) Notice in Monthly Review, December 1787; (g) Notice in Monthly Review, December 1790

8 DR JOHNSON on Defoe, 1778-849 JAMES BEATTIE on the 'new romance', 1783; 10 HUGH BLAIR on Defoe, 1783; 11 GEORGE CHALMERS, 1785; 12 SCOTT on Defoe's life and works, 1810, 1817; 13 COLERIDGE on Robinson Crusoe, March 1818, c. 1830, April 1832; 14 CHARLES LAMB on The Complete English Tradesman and the 'secondary' novels, December 1822, 1829; 15 CARLYLE on Homer, Richardson and Defoe, 1828; 16 WALTER WILSON, Memoirs of Defoe, 1830; 17 HAZLITT on Defoe, January 1830; 18 Two reviews of Wilson's Memoirs; (a) Notice in Westminster Review, April 1830; (b) Notice in British Critic, January 1830

19 WORDSWORTH on Robinson Crusoe, c. 184020 Two verse tributes by W. S. LANDOR, c. 1840; 21 DE QUINCEY on verisimilitude, 1841; 22 JOHN FORSTER, October 1845; 23 GEORGE BORROW discovers Crusoe, 1851; 24 The novelist assessed, October 1856; 25 The climate of the fifties; (a)-(c) Notice in Dublin University Magazine, July 1856; (d) Notice in British Quarterly Review, January 1858; 26 TAINE on Defoe, 1863; 27 KARL MARX on Robinson Crusoe, 1867; 28 LESLIE STEPHEN on Defoe, 1868; 29 The biographer's view, 1869; 30 The legacy of Defoe, 1869; 31 Victorian orthodoxy, October 1869

32 Edinburgh Review on Defoe, October 187033 The supremacy of Crusoe, 1871; 34 WILLIAM MINTO on Defoe, 1879; APPENDIX I: A SELECTIVE LIST OF CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS ON DEFOE'S WORK; APPENDIX II: DEFOE'S LITERARY CAREER; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

First issued in paperback 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-54658-0

0-415-51352-9

1-315-88847-5

1-134-54651-3

9781315888477

OCLC:

958101369