...Kevin Seidel By grappling with secular and religious approaches to Defoe's fiction, this essay describes the theory of fiction that Defoe writes his way toward during the course of his three-book Crusoe novel, which includes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther...

... theory of novelistic discourse—because catastrophe is, in what follows, a figure of time, a figure of eventfulness that always and ineluctably worries while it structures the broader protocols of meaning. In particular, my essay returns to Daniel Defoe and his strange preoccupation with disastrous events...

...Sarah Tindal Kareem This essay reimagines the relationship between Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and David Hume's skeptical philosophy, a relationship previously defined by Ian Watt's suggestion in The Rise of the Novel (1957) that Hume's emphasis upon man's essentially social nature...

... . . . cannot hope to take the smallest step.” Such a limit is seemingly crossed in one of the most difficult and quite possibly the strangest of passages in J. M. Coetzee's fiction: the ending of Foe . This book's self-conscious re-presentation of the origins of the English novel (and of Defoe's inauguration...

... . Vol. 4 . 249 –84. Blewett , David . By Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders .London: Penguin, 1989 . Chaber , Lois . “Matriarchal Mirror: Women and Capital in Moll Flanders.” PMLA 97 ( 1982 ): 212 –26. Chandler , James . England in 1819 . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998...

... the enchanted perils confronting Odysseus to the dangers of the matrix and the net in recent cyberfiction. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 The Right to Mobility in Adventure Fiction Margaret Cohen If we were to imagine the kind of novel Mr. Kreuznauer wished Daniel Defoe would have invented, it would...

...Scott J. Juengel Reviews ‘‘Much Study Is a Weariness of the Flesh’’ elizabeth r. napier, Falling into Matter: Problems of Embodiment in English Fiction from Defoe to Shelley (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2012), pp. 304, cloth, $85.00...

... is that all three genres both compete with each other and work together to determine modern values. They begin to emerge with clarity in the 1700s, she argues, as the “fact/fiction continuum,” evident in the works of Daniel Defoe and earlier writers, begins to separate, above all into the two major...

... or Zola) and second in ignoring the enormous literary corpus of sea literature in favor of domes- tic novels of manners. Even those novels in which the ocean and navigation are central to the plots and themes, such as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, frequently get...

... of the Old Testament] treated the doings of humble people with the utmost seriousness" (79). But Fisch's analysis of Defoe's novel in the context of earthy biblical storytelling is surely a virtuoso performance, one that takes some bold steps beyond Watt by suggesting that "the story of Robinson's many...

... of the early novel that connects it to utopian literature, then, Pearl has set himself a task that is fraught with difficulties. The five books he discusses inevitably straddle the gap between the titular genres imperfectly: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton are, by convention...

... and its subjects. Four primary texts—the anonymous Chinese novel The Plum in the Golden Vase ( Jin Ping Mei ) (ca. 1580–1600), Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605, 1615), Ihara Saikaku's Life of an Amorous Man ( Kōshoku ichidai otoko ) (1682), and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719–20...

....” The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen Ed. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997 . 131 –48. De Britaine , William . Humane Prudence, Or, The Art by which a Man May Raise Himself and His Fortune to Grandeur . 5th ed. London: n.p., 1689 . Defoe , Daniel...

... . Spectator . Vol. 1 . No. 94 . Ed. F. Bond Donald. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965 . 398 –402. Chandler , James K. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998 . Defoe , Daniel . Moll Flanders . Ed. H. Kelly Edward...

... in conversation with the legion of amateur meteorological diarists of the eigh- teenth century, not to mention Defoe’s own best-selling account of the great storm of 1703. Less satisfying, unfortunately, is the follow-up chapter on Defoe, in which Lewis pairs his bleak masterpiece, Journal of the Plague Year...

... . Carson , Gerald . The Polite Americans . New York: Morrow, 1966 . Davis , Lennard J. Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel . New York: Columbia UP, 1983 . Defoe , Daniel . “ Defoe’s Editor’s Preface .” Robinson Crusoe . Ed. Angus Ross. Harmondsworth: Penguin...

... reads Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year through corpuscular medical theory; pairs adventure fictions by William Chetwood and Penelope Aubin with theories of color and racial difference; compares the representation of status inconsistency in Fielding's early novels to alchemical ideas about...

.... But it is the eighteenth-century novels that take center stage, in four exhilarating chap- ters on Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Frances Sheridan, respectively. Grafting Sheri- dan’s 1761 Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph onto an otherwise familiar matrix that includes Roxana, Clarissa, and Tom Jones, among others...

... such as John Evelyn, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe were sorting out the complex human responses to waste as something both disgusting and desirable, at once a sign of life and a sign of death. The basic historical argument is that the Great Fire of London in 1666...

... representations that are ripe for critical reappropriation, are the subject of chapters on Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) and Thomas Southerne's popular stage version of Oroonoko (1695); Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton (1720) as well as his other texts about pirates; Swift's analysis of Irish politics...