Daniel Defoe: His LifeTaylor & Francis, 1989 - 671 páginas 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 |
Conteúdo
Fire and Plague | 3 |
MerchantRebel | 22 |
Bankrupt | 41 |
Recovery | 62 |
Fugitive | 84 |
Prison | 106 |
Four Hundred Thousand Words | 139 |
The Literary Effort of a Lifetime | 159 |
17141731 | 338 |
Six Hundred Thousand Words | 349 |
A Discontented People | 385 |
A Penetrating Eye | 412 |
The Whole World in Motion | 437 |
Projects and Designs | 467 |
Changes and Disasters | 493 |
Bred in the Bone | 529 |
New Life | 195 |
A Terrible People | 226 |
Political Maelstrom | 253 |
The Goliath of the Party | 283 |
A Team of Writers | 313 |
Notes | 543 |
Bibliography | 617 |
| 655 | |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
Account Annesley Applebee's attacks bill called Carstares Charles Church of England City CLRO common Company contemporaries court Daniel Defoe Defoe wrote Defoe's described Dissenters earl Edinburgh edition elections English Essay example Family Instructor Fiction France friends George Godolphin Harley Harley's High Church House included instance Jacobite James John John Dunton Journal July Jure Divino King knew land letter London Lord Marlborough Memoirs ment merchants ministers ministry Moll Flanders nation Newgate novels occasional conformity Oxford pamphlets paper Parliament party peace petition pillory poem political Press printed prison Protestant published Queen Anne quoted readers Review Robert Robert Harley Robinson Crusoe Roxana Sacheverell Samuel satiric says Scotland Scots Scottish Secret History sermon Shortest-Way Society South Sea South Sea Company SRO GD Stoke Newington story Tatler things Thomas tion Tory trade treaty Union University vols Whigs William William Carstares writing