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The Oxford handbook of Daniel Defoe / edited by Nicholas Seager and J.A. Downie.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online.
- Oxford handbooks online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731--Criticism and interpretation.
- Defoe, Daniel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Handbook of Daniel Defoe
- Daniel Defoe
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Daniel Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. This handbook offers the most comprehensive overview available of his life, times, writings, and reception.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Defoe's Life and Times
- Part I: Genres
- 2. Defoe's Poetry
- 3. Defoe, Prose Fiction, and the Novel
- 4. Defoe and Drama
- 5. Dialogue and Didacticism: Defoe's Conduct and Advice Literature
- 6. The Great Polemicist: Defoe's Pamphlets and Tracts
- 7. Defoe's Periodical Journalism
- 8. Defoe and the Idea of Travel
- 9. Defoe as Historian
- 10. The Style of Defoe's Correspondence
- 11. Defoe and Satire
- Part II: Contexts
- 12. Defoe and the Book Trade
- 13. Daniel Defoe and the Social Structure of Pre-Industrial England
- 14. Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance
- 15. Gender, Sexuality, and the Status of Women in Defoe's Writings
- 16. Family and Domesticity in Defoe's Writings
- 17. Defoe and Christianity
- 18. Defoe, Philosophy, and Religion
- 19. Defoe, Science, and Technology
- 20. Defoe and Government: Propaganda and Principle
- 21. Intelligence, Espionage, and the Ethics of Surveillance in Defoe's Writings
- 22. Defoe and War
- 23. Crime and the Law in Defoe's Works
- 24. Racial and National Identities in Defoe's Writings
- 25. Defoe and Ecology
- Part III: Places
- 26. Defoe and London
- 27. Defoe and Britain
- 28. Defoe's Europe: Allies and Enemies
- 29. Defoe and Colonialism
- 30. Defoe and the Pacific
- 31. Africa and the Levant in Defoe's Writings
- Part IV: Afterlives
- 32. The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945
- 33. Defoe's Critical Reception, 1731-1945
- 34. Attribution and the Defoe Canon
- 35. Habits of Gender and Genre in Three Female Robinsonades, 1767-1985
- 36. Defoe on Screen: Robinson Crusoe, The Red Turtle, and Animal Rights
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 20, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9780191998560
- 0191998567
- 9780192562098
- 0192562096
- 9780192562081
- 0192562088
- OCLC:
- 1411310798
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