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The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography

ISBN: 978-0-631-19529-0

December 2005

Wiley-Blackwell

420 pages

Description

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

 

About the Author
John Richetti is A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the eighteenth-century English novel and eighteenth-century philosophical prose, including The English Novel in History: 1700–1780 (1999), Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (1983), and Defoe’s Narratives (1975). He has edited Robinson Crusoe, among other titles.
Features

  • A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe.
  • Examines the entire range of his work in the context of what is known about his life.
  • Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions.
  • Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric.