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Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing, Lincoln B. Faller
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- Summary
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- This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge, and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least because it seemed a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels provided ways of facing working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the "literary," even "aesthetic" qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analyzing the various ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed, and departed from the genre they imitate, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of "literary" texts against those of a more "ordinary" form of narrative
- Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and Roxana are given extended readings in individual chapters. Other topics considered at length include the vexed question of Defoe's realism, his own version of reader response theory and how he deploys it, the novels' structural imitation of providential design, and his recurrent, almost obsessive effort to blunt or deny the commonly held notion that trade was somehow equivalent to theft
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xix, 263 pages
- Note
- Spine title: Crime & Defoe
- Isbn
- 9780521420860
- Label
- Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing
- Title
- Crime and Defoe
- Title remainder
- a new kind of writing
- Statement of responsibility
- Lincoln B. Faller
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge, and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least because it seemed a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels provided ways of facing working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the "literary," even "aesthetic" qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analyzing the various ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed, and departed from the genre they imitate, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of "literary" texts against those of a more "ordinary" form of narrative
- Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and Roxana are given extended readings in individual chapters. Other topics considered at length include the vexed question of Defoe's realism, his own version of reader response theory and how he deploys it, the novels' structural imitation of providential design, and his recurrent, almost obsessive effort to blunt or deny the commonly held notion that trade was somehow equivalent to theft
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Faller, Lincoln B
- Dewey number
- 823/.5
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR3408.C76
- LC item number
- F35 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought
- Series volume
- 16
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Defoe, Daniel
- Crime
- Criminals
- Social problems in literature
- Criminals in literature
- Crime in literature
- Label
- Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing, Lincoln B. Faller
- Note
- Spine title: Crime & Defoe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 25915209
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xix, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521420860
- Lccn
- 92017642
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1513867
- Label
- Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing, Lincoln B. Faller
- Note
- Spine title: Crime & Defoe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 25915209
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xix, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521420860
- Lccn
- 92017642
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1513867
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