Daniel Defoe

His Life
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4512-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1102 g

Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen—and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it. This is the definitive biography of one of eighteenth-century England's most influential figures—and one of the most prolific and widely read authors of all time

Autoren/Hrsg.

Backscheider, Paula R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Part I: 1660-1703
Chapter 1. Fire and Plague

Chapter 2.Merchant-Rebel

Chapter 3. Bankrupt

Chapter 4. Recovery

Chapter 5. Fugitive
Chapter 6. Prison

Part II: 1703-1714
Chapter 7. Four Hundred Thousand Words

Chapter 8. The Literary Effort of a Lifetime
Chapter 9. New Life

Chapter 10. A terrible People

Chapter 11. Political Maelstrom

Chapter 12. The Goliath of the Party

Chapter 13. A Team of Writers

Part III: 1714-1731
Chapter 14. Six Hundred Thousand Words

Chapter 15. A Discontented People

Chapter 16. A Penetrating Eye

Chapter 17. The Whole World in Motion

Chapter 18. Projects and Designs

Chapter 19. Changes and Disasters

Epilogue: Bred in the Bone

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Backscheider, Paula R.
Paula R. Backscheider is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including Daniel Defoe: His Life, Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England, and Reflections on Biography, and editor of Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement.

Paula Backscheider is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry, both published by Johns Hopkins.