List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
1: After the Revolution
2: The education of a Dissenter
3: Meditation of matters spiritual and secular
4: Marriage and rebellion
5: Financial woes and recovery
6: Propagandist for William III
7: The True-Born Englishman and other satires
8: An age of plot and deceit
9: From pilloried libeller to Government propagandist
10: 'Writing history sheet by sheet': Defoe, The Review
11: From public journalist to lunar philosopher
12: Defoe as spy and Whig propagandist
13: A 'true spy' in Scotland
14: In limbo between causes and masters
15: Journalism and history in 'an age of mysteries and
paradoxes'
16: How to sell out while keeping one's integrity (somewhat) intact
in that 'Lunatick Age'
17: These dangerous times
18: 'A miserable divided nation'
19: A change of monarchs
20: Times when honest men must reserve themselves for better
fortunes
21: Corrector general of the press
22: The year before Robinson Crusoe: intellectual controversies and
experiments in fiction
23: Robinson Crusoe and the variability of life
24: After Crusoe: pirate adventures, military memoirs, and the
South Sea scandal
25: Creating fictional worlds
26: Describing Britain in the 1720s
27: Enter Henry Baker
28: Last productive years
29: Sinking under the weight of affliction
Works cited
Index
Professor Maximillian E. Novak is Professor of English Literature at UCLA. He obtained his D.Phil from Oxford in 1961 and his interests include Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature; the Novel; Jewish-American Literature, Libertinism, Restoration Drama, the rise of the novel, primitivism, sensibility, madness, painting and the novel, the Gothic novel, Jewish-American writing of the immigrant period and after 1930
`Review from previous edition Scrupulous and intelligent, and gives
a finely tuned portrait of an ambitious man often living against
the flow of his world but illuminating it with extraordinary
historical perspective.'
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times 12/05/01
`Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is a sturdy account of the man
often credited with being Britain's first novelist. But, as
Maximillian E. Novak shows in this scholarly and meticulous book,
Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana are far from being the
only reasons to read about Defoe's life. Everything about him, from
his loving family life to his pragmatic support of the social and
political Establishment which best served his interests, strikes
one as
utterly modern. As indeed, does his fatal love of luxury goods.
Thank heavens he never had a Barclaycard.'
Kathryn Hughes, Book of the Week, Mail on Sunday 22 April 2001
`Review from previous edition Scrupulous and intelligent, and gives a finely tuned portrait of an ambitious man often living against the flow of his world but illuminating it with extraordinary historical perspective.' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times 12/05/01 `Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is a sturdy account of the man often credited with being Britain's first novelist. But, as Maximillian E. Novak shows in this scholarly and meticulous book, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana are far from being the only reasons to read about Defoe's life. Everything about him, from his loving family life to his pragmatic support of the social and political Establishment which best served his interests, strikes one as utterly modern. As indeed, does his fatal love of luxury goods. Thank heavens he never had a Barclaycard.' Kathryn Hughes, Book of the Week, Mail on Sunday 22 April 2001
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
