The Life of Daniel Defoe

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoes writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoes political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoes distinctive style and rhetoric Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant Now available in paperback