Daniel Defoe: His Life

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1992
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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

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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

$36.87

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
Edition: New edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 01 Aug 1992
ISBN 10: 0801845122
ISBN 13: 9780801845123

Media Reviews

For the first time everything we know about Defoe is presented in a single orderly sequence..A searching study of a complex man, one that is coherent and credible for our times. * New York Times Book Review *
A very considerable work of scholarship, and the first to give this prolific writer the extended treatment he after all deserves. * Washington Post Book World *
Paula Backscheider spins this absorbing narrative with meticulous scholarship and lucidity. * Independent on Sunday *

Author Bio

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.