Defoe's Major Fiction Accounting for the Self |
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| Author:
| Napier, Elizabeth R. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61149-615-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $43.99 |
Book Description:
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This book argues that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on moral accountability and self-definition, and addresses Defoe's characters, narration, aesthetic, and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.
This book argues that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on moral accountability and self-definition, and addresses Defoe's characters, narration, aesthetic, and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.