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Title Defoe's footprints : essays in honour of Maximillian E. Novak / edited by Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher
Published Toronto [Ont.] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 273 pages : illustrations
Series CCS ; 11
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 11.
Contents Introduction / Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher -- Defoe's silences / Stuart Sherman -- The atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe / Jayne Lewis -- Poetic footprints : some formal issues in Defoe's verse / J. Paul Hunter -- Mimesis/mimesis and the eighteenth-century British novel: representation and knowledge/ John Richetti -- Robinson Crusoe and the semiotic crisis of the eighteenth century / Robert Folkenflik -- Powerful affections : slaves, servants, and labours of love in Defoe's writing / Roxann Wheeler -- Defoe's "Black Prince" : elitism, capitalism, and cultural difference / Laura Brown -- "The project and the people" : Defoe on the South Sea bubble and the public good / Carl Fisher -- The writer as hero from Jonson to Fielding / Manuel Schonhorn -- Robinson Trousseau : Joyce's Defoe / Michael Seidel -- The novel as modern myth / John Bender
Summary With attention to Defoe's neglected writings as well as to his important works, this volume uncovers his distance from and influence on modern literature, paying tribute to Maximillian E. Novak by presenting new ideas about, and new readings of, Daniel Defoe
Notes "Maximilian E. Novak: a bibliography" (p. [239]-249)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Genre/Form Literary criticism
Festschriften
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Maniquis, Robert M., editor.
Fisher, Carl, 1958- editor.
Novak, Maximillian E., honouree.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
ISBN 9781442697690
1442697695
0802099211
9780802099211