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...Lionel Stevenson The Shaping Vision: Imagination in the English Novel from Defoe to Dickens . By Donovan Robert Alan . Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press , 1966 . Pp. viii , 272 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 272 The South Atlantic Quarterly us...

...Benjamin Boyce Daniel Defoe, Citizen of the Modern World . By Moore John Robert . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1958 . Pp. xv , 409 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 495 My imagination is not brilliant . . . but to it I owe...

...John Robert Moore Mr. Review: Daniel Defoe As Author Of “The Review” . By Payne William Lytton . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1947 . Pp. [ vi ], 147 . $2.25 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 584 The South Atlantic Quarterly book, but readers can be stimulated...

... is cited, much less discussed. DUKE UNIVERSITY T. O. BEIDELMAN The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe s Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe. By J. Paul Hunter. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. Pp. xx, 227. $6.50. In The Reluctant Pilgrim J. Paul Hunter, of Emory University, suggests...

...John Robert Moore The Best of Defoe’s Review: An Anthology . Compiled and edited by Payne William L. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Pp. xxv , 289 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 466 The South Atlantic Quarterly The author lays much...

...Joel Blair Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Defoe s Art in A Journal of the Plague Year Joel Blair Artlessness almost becomes a method in Defoe s narratives as middle-class men and women tell the true stories of their strange yet representative lives. A Journal of the Plague...

...John Robert Moore Index to Defoe’s Review . By Payne William L. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1948 . Pp. x , 144 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 320 The South Atlantic Quarterly This work, called by Mussolini History of a Year, is Mussolini...

... The Recruiting Officer, Marivaux s La Vie de Marianne, and Defoe s Selected Poetry and Prose. 1 Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury, Soliloquy: Or Advice to an Author, in Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays, ed. Scott Elledge (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1961), I, 207. The Sincerest Form...

..., William Blake. In spite of excesses of state­ ment it succeeds in relating the poet to the ideas of his time. Merle M. Bevington. Mr. Review: Daniel Defoe as Author of The Review. By William Lytton Payne. New York: King s Crown Press, 1947. Pp. [vi], 147. $2.25. Dr. Payne s volume represents taskwork...

... and the Virginian. The English view of Virginia is found in the writings of Mrs. Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, whose picture resembles that found in many Elizabethan plays. Their Virginia is the haven of the crimi­ nal and the indentured servant. The Virginian tradition is the very anthithesis of all this. Caruthers...

...Elizabeth R. Napier Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Objects and Order in Robinson Crusoe Elizabeth R. Napier From the beginning of Robinson Crusoe, objects and order occupy a central position in Defoe s narrative. On the island, Crusoe exhibits an intense interest in things...

... exploiting of Defoe s troubles and talents is movingly set forth. There are illuminating pages on the back­ ground of Crusoe and Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack. Defoe s delightful but not well known humor is amply revealed. Again and again Mr. Moore substantiates his interpretation of Defoe as a modern...

... vocative interpretation of a vivid and influential figure in the Atlantic civilization of the eighteenth century. STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, NEW PALTZ, N. Y. EVELYN M. ACOMB Daniel Defoe, Citizen of the Modern World. By John Robert Moore. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. xv, 409. $7.50...

... thus far. (Defoe spends a number of pages and much rhetorical work on implanting the violence that has controlled the hero s destiny up to this point, describing his dreams, his behavior, indeed every aspect of the culture he reproduces on an utterly compliant island.) Crusoe first regards the single...

... the importance of such unifying themes as those of survival and escape; but he explodes the theory of journalistic origin, for example Arthur Secord s suggestion that Defoe was capitalizing upon Alexander Selkirk s rescue from Juan Fernandez and was pilfering from travel accounts for realistic detail. Instead...

... of the English mercantilist economy as a whole. To begin our examinations of homologies between literary and sea-faring piracy, let’s examine a strange moment in Daniel Defoe’s A General History of the Pyrates...

... it. Three hundred pounds was three times the annual stipend of the famous Principal of the University of Edin­ burgh, six times the amount offered for the apprehension of Defoe when he was the refugee most sought by the Government. Perhaps few will contend that Swift was often moderate in his use...

... appropriately, in view of Landa s own publications five essays deal­ ing with Jonathan Swift; Fielding comes next with two essays; Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Berkeley, Smart, and Johnson are each the subject of a single essay. It would be impossible to describe the contributions of fact, inter­ pretation, and insight...

..., much less discussed. DUKE UNIVERSITY T. O. BEIDELMAN The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe s Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe. By J. Paul Hunter. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. Pp. xx, 227. $6.50. In The Reluctant Pilgrim J. Paul Hunter, of Emory University, suggests...

... have expected. More significant limitations do exist. References are listed in the order of their appearance in the Review, which makes some of the longer sections read like tables of contents; for instance, so important a subject for Defoe as Trade with France is not separately listed, but must...