Paula R Backscheider

Broschiertes Buch

Daniel Defoe

Ambition and Innovation

Beschreibung

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 readi

Autor

Paula R. Backsheider is Pepperell-Philpott Eminent Scholar in English at Auburn University and the author of numerous books, including Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780813150840
• ISBN-10: 0813150841
• Artikelnr.: 40902337