The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography by Richetti, John

The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631195290)

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The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography by Richetti, John

The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography

$149.95
The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography by Richetti, John

The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography

$149.95
Format: Hardcover
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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



Author: John Richetti
ISBN-10: 0631195297
ISBN-13: 9780631195290
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2005
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.14d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2006 pg. 1828
By John Richetti
By John Richetti
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John Richetti is A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the eighteenth-century English novel and eighteenth-century philosophical prose, including The English Novel in History: 1700-1780 (1999), Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (1983), and Defoe's Narratives (1975). He has edited Robinson Crusoe, among other titles.

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