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Informationen zum Autor Maximillian E. Novak is distinguished research professor of English, emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext By 1719, the year in which Daniel Defoe published The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, he had been writing for three decades on England's political, social, and economic problems. Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction, having made short narratives the hallmark of his journalistic style, but in turning himself into a writer of novel-length fiction over the next five years, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through patterns of language, imagery and intellectual play, while subtly injecting into these works his unique way of seeing the world. This book establishes the complexities and originality of Defoe as a writer of fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter 1: Defoe as an Innovator of Fictional FormChapter 2: Picturing the Thing Itself, or Not: Defoe, Painting, Prose Fiction, and the Arts of DescribingChapter 3: The Unmentionable and the Ineffable in Defoe's FictionChapter 4: Novel or Fictional Memoir: The Scandalous Publication of Robinson CrusoeChapter 5: Meatless Fridays: CAnnibalism as Theme and Metaphor in Robinson CrusoeChapter 6: Edenic Desires: Robinson Crusoe, The Robinsonade, and Utopian FormsChapter 7: Strangely Surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe: A Response to David Fishelov's "Robinson Crusoe, 'The Other,' and the Poetics of Surprise"Chapter 8: "Looking with Wonder Upon the Sea" : Defoe's Maritime Fictions, Robinson Crusoe, and "The Curious Age We Live in"Chapter 9: The Cave and the Grotto: Imagined Interiors and Realist Form in Robinson CrusoeChapter 10: "The SUme of Humane Misery?": Ambiguities of Exile in Defoe's FictionChapter 11: Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period following the French Revolution: Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, The Demale Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's Forester, and Frances Burney's The WandererAfterwordBibliographyAbout the Author...