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Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
… 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, as the …
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Daniel Defoe as a Historian
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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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The Prodigal Motif in Defoe and 'Robinson Crusoe.'
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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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The culture of crime: representations of the criminal in eighteen-century England
… 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 market …
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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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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… 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 was …
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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Inns of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… 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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"""The face of things"": the posthumanist imagination in eighteenth-century Britain"
… construed nonhuman—led British writers like Defoe, Swift, and Barbauld to question anthropocentric and Eurocentric ideas and practices, by collapsing key conceptual distinctions between the human and the nonhuman, the British and their colonial others. Building on the new-materialist …
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The Capacity to Aspire: Perceptions of Unattainable Success and Processes of Identity Formation among Marginalized Black Youth in the Greater Toronto Area
This thesis examines how the inequities and inequality that low-income, marginalized Black youth experience affect their success. There may be a correlation between trauma and the limitations experienced, presenting as low self-esteem and unwillingness to succeed. My research is based on first- and …
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
… 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 sustaining a …
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Ghosts of the Pacific: imagined masculinities in British voyage literature, 1697-1818
… 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 questioning …
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Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… 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 the …
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The Explorer in English Fiction
… awareness novelists have responded, ever since Defoe, to the idea that the encounter with the unfamiliar mirrors the identity of the explorer. Their presentations of terra incognita register the crucial phases of social history - the institution of mercantilism, the rise and fall of empire - but …
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