Defoe - Hardcover

Sutherland, James Runcieman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0389041432 ISBN 13: 9780389041436

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 1971

Synopsis

Professor Sutherland’s second, critical, volume on Defoe comes a generation after his “Defoe” of 1937, which was primarily a biographical study. The earlier volume has remained, in spite of minor corrections, additions, and elaborations, the most satisfying introduction to what may be the most dramatic life in English literary history. This volume will serve the general reader and student as an equally sound and absorbing introductory account of Defoe’s varied achievement as a writer. Following a biographical prologue, Mr. Sutherland treats the journalism, the poetry, the major fictions, and the most influential writings of his last years. Given the irremediable problems of selection which confront the critic wishing to present extensive and representative aspects of Defoe’s output, Mr. Sutherland’s choices are admirable and judicious.

Edition details

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0389041432
• ISBN 13: 9780389041436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300