Daniel Defoe The Life Of Daniel Defoe

Author : Richard West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe written by Richard West and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe's life was packed with incident and drama. Born in the year of the Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War, he remained a nonconformist throughout his life, actively rebelled against James II, travelled the country as a spy for King William and Queen Mary, worked in Scotland on active behalf of the historic Union of Scotland and England, helped launch the South Sea Company, was bankrupted frequently as a businessman, was imprisoned for libel and debt, and died a pauper.

Author : Maximillian E. Novak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199261543
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by Maximillian E. Novak and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country. Imprisoned many times, pilloried and reviled by his enemies, through it all he managed to produce some of the most significant literature of the eighteenth century. Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is the first biography to view Defoe's complex life through the angle of vision that is most important to us as modern readers--his career as a writer. Maximillian Novak, a leading authority on Defoe, ranges from the writer's earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death. Novak illuminates such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, novels that changed the course of fiction in their time and have remained towering classics to this day. And he reveals a writer who was a superb observer of his times--an age of dramatic historical, political, and social change. Indeed, through his many pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction, Defoe commented on everything from birth control to the price of coal, and from flying machines to the dangers of the plague. Beautifully and authoritatively written, this is the first serious, full-scale biography of Defoe to appear in a decade. It gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that lie behind some of the great works of English literature.

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119045304
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Daniel Defoe written by John Richetti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant Now available in paperback

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1965 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative extracts designed to suit the needs of the student and the general reader.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Works of Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited Daniel Defoe collection includes: The True-Born Englishman_x000D_ An Essay upon Projects_x000D_ The Complete English Tradesman_x000D_ Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business_x000D_ Second Thoughts are Best_x000D_ The Shortest Way with the Dissenters_x000D_ And What if the Pretender Should Come?_x000D_ An Answer to a Question that Nobody Thinks of_x000D_ A Humble Proposal to the People of England_x000D_ Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover_x000D_ A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in Favour of the Pretender_x000D_ The creator of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe was quite politically active and that activism even resulted with his arrest, placement in a pillory and imprisoning. His most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman is a political satire that defends the king against the perceived xenophobia of his enemies, satirizing the English claim to racial purity. Defoe's notable publication, An Essay upon Projects, is a series of proposals for social and economic improvement. The Complete English Tradesman is an example of Defoe's political works. He discusses the role of the tradesman in England in comparison to tradesmen internationally, arguing that the British system of trade is far superior. The work that finally got him arrested was a pamphlet The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, which ruthlessly satirized the High church Tories and the Dissenters. Besides these, Defoe published a great number of political essays, pamphlets and tracts._x000D_ Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731), was an English writer, journalist, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, and he is considered one of the founders of the English novel.

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631195297
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Daniel Defoe written by John Richetti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant Now available in paperback

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : 이새의나무
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by 이새의나무. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson Crusoe was presented as a true autobiography of a castaway marooned for 28 years on an uninhabited island. The book’s plot is believed to be based on the story of the real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk. And is first published on 25 April 1719. It was been considered one of the first English novels.

Author : Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161835
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by Paula R. Backscheider and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive reading of books published in England, his understanding of the reading tastes of his contemporaries, and his engagement with the issues and events of his time. Defoe, the dedicated professional writer and innovator, emerges with a new wholeness, and certain of his novels assume new significance. Defoe's literary status continues to be debated and misunderstood. Even critical studies of the novel often begin with Richardson rather than Defoe. By moving from Defoe's poetry, pamphlets, and histories to the novels, Backscheider offers an argument for the thematic and stylistic coherency of his oeuvre and for a recognition of the dominant place he held in shaping the English novel. For example, Defoe deserves to be recognized as the true originator of the historical novel, for three of his fictions are deeply engaged with just those conceptual and technical issues common to all later historical fiction. And Roxana now appears as Defoe's deliberate attempt to enter the fastest growing market for fiction -- that for women readers. What have been powerfully significant for the history of the novel, then, are the very characteristics of his writing that have been held against his literary stature: its contemporaneity, its mixed and untidy form, its formal realism, its concentration on the life of an individual, and its probing of the individual's psychological interaction with the empirical world, making that world representative even as it is referential. It is exactly these characteristics most original, prominent, and subsequently imitated in Defoe's fiction that define the form we call "novel."

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : D. A. Talboys
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by D. A. Talboys. This book was released on 1841 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Defoe: The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: