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The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies)

The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies)

by Richetti (Author)

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    Hardcover 2005

    $121.32
Synopsis

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe. This book features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions. It places emphasis on Defoe's distinctive style and rhetoric.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 420
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 22 Dec 2005
ISBN 10: 0631195297
ISBN 13: 9780631195290

Media Reviews
Richetti reminds us why so many of Defoe's works are still worth reading ... [The Life of Daniel Defoe] is a welcome addition to the family of biographies trying to render three-dimensional the man behind so many voices. Studies In English Literature 1500-1900 Richetti does a remarkable job. 18th-Century Studies Richetti's contributions to the study of 18th century fiction have established him among the foremost critics...he has been brilliant in his treatment of Defoe. 1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era Richetti conscientiously explains the political controversies that possessed Defoe ... When he reaches his chapters on Defoe's novels you get the eloquent condensation of his expertise. London Review of Books [Richetti] brings us closer than any previous biographer to the personality that 'must have been lurking somewhere behind the various voices that he projected' over forty years of writing. This is an urbane, well informed, and interesting account, not only of Defoe but of the entire Defoe enterprise. Scriblerian
Author Bio
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.