Defoe's Britain Defoe's Britain
The Weight of Words Series

Defoe's Britain

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Descripción editorial

The Weight of Words Series continues with Daniel Defoe, as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain in the late 1600s, and likewise looks to the times to interpret the fiction. As seen in previous studies on Christie, Smollett, Fielding, and the Gothic novelists, Black tells the story of the story-teller, and presents the picture of British nationalism that “was the product, history, and record of struggle––collective and individual––as well as its defence. Defoe provides particular accounts of this struggle, both in foreign seas and lands, and at home. This struggle had a moral character that is difficult to capture today.”

Defoe was an outsider, a man of many interests whom Black asserts evades too precise a portrait or coherent description of character and career. But he is a traveler, in the literal and imaginative senses, and in his engagement with life and its issues and willingness to associate with 'low-life' prefigures later literary giants like Smollett and Fielding. More than the establishment of genre, Defoe created the writer “whose business is observation.” Black’s account of this parcel of the British past is impeccable because it is in fact an account that the past, in Defoe, gives of itself. “As a writer, Defoe brought together a reality usually presented as, and endorsed by, history, with the imaginative focus of storytelling, and the direction of, variously, propaganda, analysis, and exemplary tale." 

GÉNERO
Ficción y literatura
PUBLICADO
2024
12 de abril
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
260
Páginas
EDITORIAL
St. Augustine's Press
VENTAS
Chicago Distribution Center
TAMAÑO
2
MB

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