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Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, cartea 16

Autor Lincoln B. Faller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2008
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 as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and 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. Analysing the ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521060332
ISBN-10: 0521060338
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; 1. Romancing the real: the field of criminal biography; 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves; 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it; 4. Imitations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged and kept in play by strange concurrences; 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the texts as a field supporting very nice distinctions; 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the additions and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names; 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self, and the symbolic order; Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense and empty spaces.

Descriere

Lincoln Faller describes and discusses some of the ways in which Defoe's crime fiction relates to the ordinary, popular narrative form which it imitates.