The Resource Defoe's America, Dennis Todd
Defoe's America, Dennis Todd
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- Summary
- "The Americas appear as an evocative setting in more than half of Daniel Defoe's novels, and often offer a new beginning for his characters. In the first full-length study of Defoe and colonialism, Dennis Todd explores why the New World loomed so large in Defoe's imagination. By focusing on the historical contexts that informed Defoe's depiction of American Indians, African slaves, and white indentured servants, Dennis Todd investigates the colonial assumptions that shaped his novels and, at the same time, uncovers how Defoe used details of the American experience in complex, often figurative ways to explore the psychological bases of the profound conversions and transformations that his heroes and heroines undergo. And by examining what Defoe knew and did not know about America, what he falsely believed and what he knowingly falsified, Defoe's America probes the doubts, hesitancies, and contradictions he had about the colonial project he so fervently promoted"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 229 pages
- Contents
-
- Defoe's America
- Mastering the savage: conversion in Robinson Crusoe
- Servitude and self-transformation in Colonel Jack
- Moll Flanders and the misrepresentation of servitude
- Conclusion: Defoe, cannibals, and colonialism
- Isbn
- 9780521195812
- Label
- Defoe's America
- Title
- Defoe's America
- Statement of responsibility
- Dennis Todd
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Americas appear as an evocative setting in more than half of Daniel Defoe's novels, and often offer a new beginning for his characters. In the first full-length study of Defoe and colonialism, Dennis Todd explores why the New World loomed so large in Defoe's imagination. By focusing on the historical contexts that informed Defoe's depiction of American Indians, African slaves, and white indentured servants, Dennis Todd investigates the colonial assumptions that shaped his novels and, at the same time, uncovers how Defoe used details of the American experience in complex, often figurative ways to explore the psychological bases of the profound conversions and transformations that his heroes and heroines undergo. And by examining what Defoe knew and did not know about America, what he falsely believed and what he knowingly falsified, Defoe's America probes the doubts, hesitancies, and contradictions he had about the colonial project he so fervently promoted"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Todd, Dennis
- Dewey number
- 823/.5
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR3407
- LC item number
- .T56 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Defoe, Daniel
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Label
- Defoe's America, Dennis Todd
- 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
- Contents
- Defoe's America -- Mastering the savage: conversion in Robinson Crusoe -- Servitude and self-transformation in Colonel Jack -- Moll Flanders and the misrepresentation of servitude -- Conclusion: Defoe, cannibals, and colonialism
- Control code
- 632228530
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521195812
- Lccn
- 2010022106
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)632228530
- Label
- Defoe's America, Dennis Todd
- 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
- Contents
- Defoe's America -- Mastering the savage: conversion in Robinson Crusoe -- Servitude and self-transformation in Colonel Jack -- Moll Flanders and the misrepresentation of servitude -- Conclusion: Defoe, cannibals, and colonialism
- Control code
- 632228530
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521195812
- Lccn
- 2010022106
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)632228530
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