Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 10 July 2025
- ISBN 9781009102773
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Weight 496 g
- Language English 669
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Short description:
Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century writing on Britain.
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Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century travel writing. Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is constantly cited even now by students in practically every branch of history, and there are few topics essential to our understanding of the nation in the early modern period that do not show up in its pages. Historians since the late nineteenth century have looked to the Tour as one of the richest and most insightful works describing Britain in the lead-up to the Industrial Revolution, and critics and biographers of Defoe have regularly named it as among his most characteristic and central works. Indispensable for virtually any interdisciplinary approach to the nation in this period, this new study provides wide-reaching, up-to-date analysis of the content of the Tour, and of its methods, sources, form, and vast historical significance.
A major work of scholarship by one of our most eminent and erudite authorities on eighteenth-century literature. Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain displays Pat Rogers's unparalleled knowledge of Defoe and his world. Nobody else could have written this book. It is the result of a lifetime of research, an enthusiastic celebration of Defoe's singular achievement in writing A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. There is something surprising and edifying to learn on every page, for novice and expert readers alike. It will remain a landmark in Defoe scholarship for years to come. Joseph Hone, Newcastle University
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part 1. Form and Function: 1. The identity of Britain; 2. Embedding and embodying the nation: Textual practices and form in the Tour; 3. The epic strain; 4. The shape of the nation; Part 2. Time: 5. The role of the Tour in the historiography of early modern Britain; 6. The Jacobite rising in the Tour: Preventing the ruin of Scotland; 7. The impact of the bubble; 8. Local proverbs and folk wisdom; Part 3. Place: 9. The uses of topography; 10. Road-testing the first turnpikes: Defoe's account of English highways; 11. Defoe on Bristol: The text with an introduction and annotation; 12. Atlas Maritimus: The case for Defoe's authorship.
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