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The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe by Seager, Nicholas; Downie, J. A.;

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Publisher OUP Oxford
Date of Publication 14 December 2023

ISBN 9780198827177
Binding Hardback
No. of pages720 pages
Size 254x178x43 mm
Weight 1404 g
Language English
Illustrations 13 Illustrations

Short description:

Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Daniel Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive overview available of his life, times, writings, and reception.

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The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook.

The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.

The book offers a summative report on the current state of Defoe studies while also elucidating future forms of inquiry in several different directions. The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe aptly demonstrates the range as well as the depth of understanding found in thismost prolific of literary authors.Indeed, due to Defoe's intimate acquaintance with and participation in most aspects of his world, the Handbook, while brilliantly illuminating Defoe, exhibits a panoramic primer of the late Restoration and early Augustan periods.

Defoe's Life and Times
Part I. Genres
Defoe's Poetry
Defoe, Prose Fiction, and the Novel
Defoe and Drama
Dialogue and Didacticism: Defoe's Conduct and Advice Literature
The Great Polemicist: Defoe's Pamphlets and Tracts
Defoe's Periodical Journalism
Defoe and the Idea of Travel
Defoe as Historian
The Style of Defoe's Correspondence
Defoe and Satire
Part II. Contexts
Defoe and the Book Trade
Daniel Defoe and the Social Structure of Pre-Industrial England
Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance
Gender, Sexuality, and the Status of Women in Defoe's Writings
Family and Domesticity in Defoe's Writings
Defoe and Christianity
Defoe, Philosophy, and Religion
Defoe, Science, and Technology
Defoe and Government: Propaganda and Principle
Intelligence, Espionage, and the Ethics of Surveillance in Defoe's Writings
Defoe and War
Crime and the Law in Defoe's Works
Racial and National Identities in Defoe's Writings
Defoe and Ecology
Part III. Places
Defoe and London
Defoe and Britain
Defoe's Europe: Allies and Enemies
Defoe and Colonialism
Defoe and the Pacific
Africa and the Levant in Defoe's Writings
Part IV. Afterlives
The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945
Defoe's Critical Reception, 1731-1945
Attribution and the Defoe Canon
Habits of Gender and Genre in Three Female Robinsonades, 1767-1985
Defoe on Screen: Robinson Crusoe, The Red Turtle, and Animal Rights