Daniel Defoe: His Life - Softcover

Backscheider, Paula R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801845122 ISBN 13: 9780801845123

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

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Throughout one of English history’s most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe’s remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe’s secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen-and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it. This is the definitive biography of one of eighteenth-century England’s most influential figures-and one of the most prolific and widely read authors of all time

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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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Paula Backscheider's widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of this remarkable life. She reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen--and his cat and mouse games with those who sought to control it. This is the definitive biography of one of eighteenth-century England's most influential figures--and one of the most prolific and widely read authors of all time.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801845122
• ISBN 13: 9780801845123
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 690
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