The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoe s 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