Daniel Defoe: Ambition and Innovation

By Paula R Backsheider and Paula R. Backscheider

In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive readi

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813150841
• ISBN13: 9780813150840
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher