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The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook.
The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.
Contents
1: Brian Cowan: Defoe's Life and Times
Part I. Genres
2: Maximillian E. Novak: Defoe's Poetry
3: Geoffrey Sill: Defoe, Prose Fiction, and the Novel
4: Cynthia Wall: Defoe and Drama
5: Penny Pritchard: Dialogue and Didacticism: Defoe's Conduct and Advice Literature
6: Jeffrey Hopes: The Great Polemicist: Defoe's Pamphlets and Tracts
7: Ashley Marshall: Defoe's Periodical Journalism
8: Paul Baines: Defoe and the Idea of Travel
9: Rebecca Bullard: Defoe as Historian
10: Marc Mierowsky: The Style of Defoe's Correspondence
11: Joseph Hone: Defoe and Satire
Part II. Contexts
12: Pat Rogers: Defoe and the Book Trade
13: J. A. Downie: Daniel Defoe and the Social Structure of Pre-Industrial England
14: Nicholas Seager: Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance
15: Paula R. Backscheider: Gender, Sexuality, and the Status of Women in Defoe's Writings
16: Liz Bellamy: Family and Domesticity in Defoe's Writings
17: David Walker: Defoe and Christianity
18: John Richetti: Defoe, Philosophy, and Religion
19: Christopher F. Loar: Defoe, Science, and Technology
20: D. W. Hayton: Defoe and Government: Propaganda and Principle
21: Katherine Ellison: Intelligence, Espionage, and the Ethics of Surveillance in Defoe's Writings
22: Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson: Defoe and War
23: Kate Loveman: Crime and the Law in Defoe's Works
24: Srividhya Swaminathan: Racial and National Identities in Defoe's Writings
25: Lucinda Cole: Defoe and Ecology
Part III. Places
26: Brean S. Hammond: Defoe and London
27: Adam Sills: Defoe and Britain
28: Andreas K. E. Mueller: Defoe's Europe: Allies and Enemies
29: Markman Ellis: Defoe and Colonialism
30: Robert Markley: Defoe and the Pacific
31: Rebekah Mitsein and Manushag N. Powell: Africa and the Levant in Defoe's Writings
Part IV. Afterlives
32: Nicholas Seager: The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945
33: Kit Kincade: Defoe's Critical Reception, 1731-1945
34: Benjamin F. Pauley: Attribution and the Defoe Canon
35: Rivka Swenson: Habits of Gender and Genre in Three Female Robinsonades, 1767-1985
36: Robert Mayer: Defoe on Screen: Robinson Crusoe, The Red Turtle, and Animal Rights
