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Number of Pages600 Pages
Publication NameCambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorDaniel Defoe
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews'This authoritative edition gives insights into a range of contemporary events and preoccupations: colonization, religious controversy, communication and transport networks, the publishing trade and relations between authors and printers, the operation of eighteenth-century spymasters and methods of political fact-finding. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of the period, not least the Union with Scotland and the Hanoverian Succession.' Margarette Lincoln, The Times Literary Supplement, 'Seager's new edition of Defoe's correspondence will be the standard and authoritative account for many years' Markman Ellis, Review of English Studies, 'This volume offers many resources to scholars and students of Defoe. The detailed introduction and extensive notes open these letters to a wider public by adding crucial critical and historical contexts to its exceptional editorial work. This will now be the standard edition of Defoe's letters. Barring major new archival discoveries, it is difficult to imagine needing another for many decades to come.' Christopher Loar, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 'Nicholas Seager's excellent, carefully edited edition ... reestablishes the texts of the correspondence from original manuscripts in cases where they are available and adds an extensive editorial apparatus ... Its lengthy introductory essay stands out as a model of its kind' Christopher Loar, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 'Nicholas Seager has produced a stunningly impressive edition of Defoe's correspondence from 1703 to 1730 ... The letters are lively, pugnacious, detailed, typographically (scribally) dramatic, and intrinsically compelling; in Nicholas Seager they have an eminently worthy editor' Cynthia Wall, Bunyan Studies
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823.5
Table Of ContentList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Editorial Principles and Practice; Chronology; Conventions and Abbreviations; Calendar of Letters; Introduction; The Letters I; Select Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisThis comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript habits., This is the standard, authoritative edition of Defoe's letters, vital for historians, literary scholars, and students of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. Including full biographical, literary, and historical information, this edition offers a unique picture of the writer who arguably created the modern novel and political journalism.
LC Classification NumberPR3406.A4