The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography

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
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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.

Series

Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

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