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Transformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives : finding the thing itself /
Writer Daniel Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction in short stories, but in turning himself into a novel-length writer, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through patterns of language, imagery, and intellectual play. This book establishes the complexities and orig...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Defoe as an innovator of fictional form
- Picturing the thing itself, or not: Defoe, painting, prose fiction, and the arts of describing
- The unmentionable and the ineffable in Defoe's fiction
- Novel or fictional memoir: the scandalous publication of Robinson Crusoe
- Meatless fridays: cannibalism as theme and metaphor in Robinson Crusoe
- Edenic desires: Robinson Crusoe, the Robinsonade, and utopian forms
- Strangely surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe: a response to David Fishelov's "Robinson Crusoe, 'the other, ' and the poetics of surprise"
- "Looking with wonder upon the sea" : Defoe's maritime fictions, Robinson Crusoe, and "the curious age we live in"
- The cave and the grotto: imagined interiors and realist form in Robinson Crusoe
- "The sume of humane misery?": ambiguities of exile in Defoe's fiction
- Ideological tendencies in three crusoe narratives by British novelists during the period following the French Revolution: Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, the demale Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's Forester, and Frances Burney's The wanderer.