Defoe and the Whig Novel: A Reading of the Major Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781611491449)

his study places Defoe's major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his greatest inspiration from popular print culture. This study reads the novels as reflections of mainstream Whig social and political concerns, the same concerns Defoe revealed in his verse and expository writings before and after his major period of fiction writing, 1719-24.

Author: Leon Guilhamet
ISBN-10: 1611491444
ISBN-13: 9781611491449
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2010
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d