Defoe's Footprints

Essays in Honour of Maximillian E. Novak
Herausgeber: Maniquis, Robert; Fisher, Carl

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Produktbeschreibung

In Defoe's Footprints, essays by prominent scholars of eighteenth-century literature salute Maximillian E. Novak's influence upon the study of Daniel Defoe. Best known today as the author of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was a prolific writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who wrote novels, essays, pamphlets, and poems. Widely extending Novak's perspectives, this volume explores Defoe's place in the English novel and in literary developments of mimesis, realism, and popular mythology. The contributors locate Defoe in new ways within the complex symbolism and discourse of a turbulent world of burgeoning capitalism, Protestantism, imperialism, and economic speculation. With attention to Defoe's neglected writings as well as to his important works, this volume uncovers his distance from and influence on modern literature, paying tribute to Maximillian E. Novak by presenting new ideas about, and new readings of, Daniel Defoe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780802099211
• ISBN-10: 0802099211
• Artikelnr.: 26608124

Autorenporträt

Edited by Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher
1 Defoe's Silences Stuart Sherman
2 The Atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe / Jayne Lewis
3 Poetic Footprints: Some Formal Issues in Defoe's Poetry J. Paul Hunter
4 Mimesis/Mimesis and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel: Representation
and Knowledge John Richetti
5 Robinson Crusoe and the Semiotic Crisis of the Eighteenth Century Robert
Folkenflik
6 Powerful Affections: Slaves, Servants, and Labours of Love in Defoe's
Writing Roxann Wheeler
7 Defoe's 'Black Prince': Elitism, Cpaitalism, and Cultural Difference
Laura Brown
8 'The Project and the People': Defoe on the South Sea Bubble and the
Public Good Carl Fisher
9 The Writer as Hero from Jonson to Fielding Manuel Schonhorn
10 Robinson Trousseau: Joyce's Defoe Michael Seidel
11 The Novel as Modern Myth John Bender
12 Maximilian E. Novak: A Bibliography
Contributors
Index