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Elisabeth Détis, Daniel Defoe démasqué : lecture de l'œuvre romanesque — Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders
No full textBandry-Scubbi Anne. Elisabeth Détis, Daniel Defoe démasqué : lecture de l'œuvre romanesque — Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°51, 2000. pp. 369-371
The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (Ed. by N Seager)
No full textThe Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position—in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook.The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works
La peste a Londra secondo Daniel Defoe
No full textL'articolo rilegge il Journal of the Plague Year di Daniel Defoe (1723) alla luce della attuale epidemia di Covid 19
DANIEL DEFOE: EXPERIMENTER IN PROSE.
No full textWhen Daniel Defoe began writing fiction he was nearly sixty years old, and from 1719 to 1724 he published in rapid succession five popular works of fiction. His literary accomplishment, usually acknowledged as the starting point of the English novel, conspicuously remains outside the literary movement embedded in the Augustan poetics of the early eighteenth century, the Age of Reason. Daniel Defoe does not stand with Pope or Swift, who are recognized. as authors characteristic of the early eighteenth century. Nor does he usually stand with Richardson or Fielding, who are generally acclaimed for their novelistic techniques. Rather, he appears usually as an isolated historical fact in the chronological account of the history of the novel-- he was first. The isolation of Defoe from the dominant literary movement of the early eighteenth century is justifiable, for he wrote fiction from a world view based on the seventeenth-century scientific movement
Lebensbuecher der Jugend, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, George Westermann, Verlag, Braunschweig
No full textLEBENSBUECHER DER JUGEND, DANIEL DEFOE, ROBINSON CRUSOE, GEORGE WESTERMANN, VERLAG, BRAUNSCHWEIG
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Histoire Du Diable : Traduite de l'Anglois / [Daniel Defoe]
No full textHISTOIRE DU DIABLE : TRADUITE DE L'ANGLOIS / [DANIEL DEFOE]
Histoire Du Diable : Traduite de l'Anglois / [Daniel Defoe]
Contenant un Détail des circonstances, où il s'est trouvé, depuis son Bannissement du Ciel, Jusqu'a la Création de l'Homme: avec quelques Réflexions sur les Erreurs de certains Auteurs, touchant la Raison & la Manière de sa Chute (T. 1) (1)
Qui traite de la Conduite qu'il a tenue jusqu'à-present, & des moiens dont il se sert pour venir à bout de ses Desseins (T. 2) (1
The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe
No full textThe Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author’s life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position—in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook. The volume ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, expert contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works
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The Works of Daniel Defoe
No full textDaniel Defoe is now mainly thought of as a novelist - the author of such famous works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders - but this is not how his contemporaries regarded him. His reputation in his lifetime was as a poet, a journalist, and a polemical writer on political, economic and social affairs. The quantity and range of his writings is unparalleled in English Literature, and few writers have made such a lasting impact in so many literary genres.
This is the most comprehensive collection of the writings of this extraordinary man ever attempted. Grouped under five thematic headings, it aims, in 44 volumes, to give as extensive a representation as possible of Defoe’s work in all the literary genres to which he contributed
Fear of fiction: the authorial response to realism in selected works by Swift, Defoe, and Richardson
Get PDFIf Mrs. Whitehouse produced a pornographic play, it would arouse enormous interest, mainly because of Mrs. Whitehouse’s well known views on pornography. It is an ancient fact of English Literature that two of the best known pioneers of the English realistic novel, Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson, were Puritans. And there is an almost equally ancient critical tradition which traces the easy path of Puritan literature, in combination with other cultural forces, towards the production of realistic fiction. The central argument of this thesis is that there was no such easy path. Puritan autobiography was unrealistic in its very nature, while Puritan feeling towards fiction was hostile, with realistic, or verisimilar fiction provoking most hostility because the most deceitful. Thus the writing of a realistic novel was a radical departure for the Puritan, and one that was fraught with tension. It is this tension, or fear of fiction, and its effects on work of the two Puritan novelists, and that odd Anglican Jonathan Swift, that is the subject of this thesis. Swift joins Defoe and Richardson as an author with a special relationship with Defoe, and himself closer to a fearful anti- mimetic "tradition" than the comic tradition in which he is usually placed alongside Fielding and Sterne. Selected works of the three authors reveal their struggle with the intense problems that realism created for them, and their eventual 'solutions'. Hence by the time that Dr. Johnson made his famous critical statement against the fearful potential of realism in his fourth Rambler [31 March 1750), he was actually formalising material that had been well examined in the fiction under discussion, rather than beating an original critical path in response to Fielding's supposedly 'new' verisimilar form
Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics
Get PDFDaniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency
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