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Daniel Defoe as a Historian
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The theme of isolation in four novels of Daniel Defoe
<p>Daniel Defoe, separated from the society of the majority of English people of his time by his religion and his low social status, was concerned with isolation in the lives of the characters in his novels. The solitude of Robinson Crusoe has been frequently discussed, but the characters in other …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… with her own inward, psychological reactions. Daniel Defoe, as a middle-class journalist, was poised to inherit Early Modern Englishwomen’s representations of this textual, inward turn. While many critics have called Defoe’s adoption of the female subject (specifically the rogue) innovative, he …
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The culture of crime: representations of the criminal in eighteen-century England
… on the criminal narratives of John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and John Gay reveal how the criminal narrative functioned as a means of critiquing a developing commercial society in England. Bunyan first employs the formula of the criminal biography to offer a prophetic critique of the burgeoning …
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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Inns of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… and secrecy. Analyzing works by Penelope Aubin, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett, this work argues that the inn serves an essential function within eighteenth-century English fiction.
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
… and explores the influence of writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Marshall and Tobias Smollett on textual representations of landscape and tourism. Chapter one focuses on English-language Welsh novels from the 1780s and 1790s, highlighting the potential ideological disconnect between …
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Ghosts of the Pacific: imagined masculinities in British voyage literature, 1697-1818
… approach, arguing that texts by authors like Daniel Defoe and Jane Austen imagine the Pacific as a rich, discursive field for representing both commercial and domestic subjectivities. Celebrated by polite readers, the novels and narratives of Pacific voyagers were an important means for …
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Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
… Baxter, influenced the religious thought of Daniel Defoe. Though some critics, most notably G. A. Starr and J. Paul Hunter, have positioned Defoe within a broad "Puritan" tradition, his religious ideas are more properly understood within the specific circumstances of post-Restoration England, …
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Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… and economic risks that shape the works of Daniel Defoe, who established the need for a modern individual to circulate in a dangerous world in order to secure for himself better standing in society. In Robinson Crusoe (1719) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) Defoe explicitly rejects …
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Feeling real in fiction : a study of the phenomenological mimesis of givenness in the novel.
… a life-world. In Robinson Crusoe, for example, Defoe transmutes the reader's sense of his controlling authorial hand into a mimetic sense of Providence, rendering the foregrounded givenness of his world phenomenologically verisimilitudinous by framing it as God-given. Hardy in Jude the Obscure …
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“Horatio Dawn” and “Invisibly somewhere between the two clauses”
… the works of John Locke, Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. Locke’s writings about private property certainly influenced Dampier’s views of Australia and, I argue, Locke’s idea of a tabula rasa was transferred onto the landscape of Australia: meaning that the tabula rasa of Australia remains …
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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
… the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-Haywood, Defoe, Austen, and Chopin-this work examines the way the mother's importance evolves throughout literature. In Haywood's works, motherhood is seen as a dominant force in her child's life, but not a dominant force in society. Defoe approaches …
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Casuistical Connections from Dunton to Defoe
… literature's casuistical qualities into Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, I investigate how Defoe's ties to casuistry are reflected in and perpetuated by Crusoe, illustrating how the novel becomes a medium for resolving cases of conscience. The novel as a genre is shown to be more than just a …
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Pirates in the Age of Projects, 1688-1707
This dissertation retells the history of pirates in the anglophone world, 1688-1707. It argues that the appellation “pirate” became applied to some within global seafaring communities as part of a contest among people of middling means to define the purpose and organisation of overseas expansion. …