Daniel Defoe: His Life - Hardcover

Backscheider, Paula R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801837855 ISBN 13: 9780801837852

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989

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An excellent biography, the first since 1958, of a man whose life was an adventure rivaling Robinson Crusoe's. Backscheider (English, U. of Rochester) reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, and his cat-and-mouse games with those who wanted to control the press and his dangerous pen. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Paula R. Backscheider is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including Daniel Defoe: His Life, Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England, and Reflections on Biography, and editor of Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801837855
• ISBN 13: 9780801837852
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 688
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