Search Results for Daniel Defoe

...Mira Zaman Abstract As the long eighteenth century brought forth a new wave of secular ethics, Daniel Defoe expressed serious concern about a particular figure who was losing status among the intellectual elite: the Devil. In his Political History of the Devil , Defoe insists that waning belief...

...Mark Vareschi While much scholarly attention has been paid to attributing or de-attributing the texts associated with Daniel Defoe properly, less attention has been paid to the process of attribution itself and the context in which these attributions were made. This essay examines the various means...

.... This is not the place to rehearse the attributional sins of Defoe bibliographers from George Chalmers (1790) to John Robert Moore, whose Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe (1960; 2nd ed., 1971) expanded the canon to include a staggering 570 items with little or no solid evidence for many...

... Dickinson College The first volume of Daniel Defoe’s Crusoe trilogy (1719 – ​20) provides a sat- isfying conversion narrative: Crusoe, alone on the island, recognizes that he has been a sinner and becomes a practicing Christian.1 However, in the second volume, The Farther Adventures of Robinson...

... that Daniel Defoe characterized, in A Brief Deduction of the . . . Woollen Manufacture (1727), as existing for “the weakest of all Reasons, the Love of Change and Variety” (50). These critics imagined women as “Callico Madams” who fl aunted their bright fabrics from foreign countries, displaying...

..., or dead. Another potentially more disturbing aspect of punishment by the pillory was its unpredictability. In the summer of 1702, Fuller lost an eye. One year later, when pilloried for his seditious pamphlet The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters , Daniel Defoe was famously greeted by a sympathetic crowd...

... for Twayne Publishers called Daniel Defoe (1987). As several reviewers noted, the Twayne series includes weak books, but all agree that John raised the bar substantially, providing an accessible yet schol- arly introduction to Defoe suitable for students and general readers alike.4 That John took...

...” or supposedly genuine domestic roles or kinship ties. This lucid and reasonable book deepens our understanding of the pervasive yet understudied motif of surrogacy in the novels of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Burney. Women's choices in configuring surrogate relationships...

..., Aaron Hill, John Byrom, Samuel Johnson, William King, Thomas Carte, Paul Whitehead, Moses Mendes, Eliza Haywood, and Chevalier Ramsay), and conversely from the Whig- Hanoverian side (such as Richard Steele, Daniel Defoe, John Toland, Earl of Shaftesbury, James Anderson, J. T. Desaguliers, Charles...

... for the Stoke Newington Edition of Daniel Defoe. He published no monograph. 6 4 Eighteenth-Century Life His most important contribution to eighteenth- century studies and it is a mighty one is his service on The Eighteenth- Century Current Bibliography (also known as ECCB: The Eighteenth Century: A Current...

... for Sodomy; Nature and the Laws of God require it. —Daniel Defoe, Conjugal Lewdness (1727) The new gay reading of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Rob- inson Crusoe (London, 1719) treats Daniel Defoe’s famous novel as a case history of homosexual repression. According to Hans Turley...

...Kit Kincade [email protected] Michael B. Prince . The Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel ( Charlottesville : Univ of Virginia , 2020 ). Pp. 350 . $35 . Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Michael Prince argues that Daniel...

... 2018 doi 10.1215/00982601-4261352 Copyright 2018 by Duke University Press 130 131 The book’s first chapter brings together Francis Bacon’s writing on the Union of Crowns and Daniel...

... in opposition to the strategies employed by dominant culture to assert meanings and ensure conformity. 5. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe [1719], ed. J. Donald Crowley (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1998) 4 – 5. 6. See, respectively, Watt, Rise of the Novel, discussed at greater length below; Firdous...

... colleagues, Robert Folkenflik and Richard Kroll, for their helpful comments on early versions of this essay. 1.  Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of  York, Mariner [1719], ed. with introduction by J. Donald Crowley (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1972), 82...

... experience” (86). 6. Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [1719], ed. Michael Shinagel, 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 1994), 3. 7. Percy G. Adams, Travelers and Travel Liars, 1660 – 1800 (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1962), and Adams, Travel Literature...

... Pamela and Daniel Defoe’s Roxana) by pairing them with historical accounts of female servants whose actual stories exaggerate the concerns of the fictions. She compares Pamela with Elizabeth Canning, and Roxana and Amy with Elizabeth Brownrigg. In both of her chapters on female servants, Straub...

... situate major authors such as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Joseph Addison alongside Henry Sacheverell, Charles Leslie, William Pit- tis, John Tutchin, and so forth. The book comprises five chapters, each of which focuses on the cultural response to a political moment or event: Wil- liam III s abrupt...

...   Eighteenth-Century Life with more urgency in the work of the other authors in Loar’s study, especially Daniel Defoe. In this way, Loar’s book finds resonances between texts that those of us who work on colonial fiction would generally not read together. In Political Magic, Cavendish’s focus...

... pupils were Daniel Defoe and poet Samuel Wesley, father to John and Charles, the founders of Methodism. Both Defoe and Wesley would have much to say about Morton’s academy later in their lives.22 Morton had been at Wadham College, Oxford, was a noted...