Abstract
This collection of critical writing on Daniel Defoe comprises part of a research
project undertaken in 2001 and 2002 during a period of intercalated leave from the
early stages of my doctoral thesis. The primary purpose of the project was to
produce a comprehensive, and generously-proportioned, portrait of the changing
critical reputation of Defoe between 1700 and 1900. While the material collected
has undergone a rigorous editorial process that renders it -- necessarily -- selective, one of my fundamental objectives throughout has been to give the broadest possible sense of the developing critical response to Defoe’s extraordinarily diverse canon of writing.
project undertaken in 2001 and 2002 during a period of intercalated leave from the
early stages of my doctoral thesis. The primary purpose of the project was to
produce a comprehensive, and generously-proportioned, portrait of the changing
critical reputation of Defoe between 1700 and 1900. While the material collected
has undergone a rigorous editorial process that renders it -- necessarily -- selective, one of my fundamental objectives throughout has been to give the broadest possible sense of the developing critical response to Defoe’s extraordinarily diverse canon of writing.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Digital Defoe : Studies in Defoe and his Contemporaries |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |