Christopher Borsing teaches in the School of English, TCD and in the Open Education Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland. After a varied career as building labourer, kitchen porter, itinerant fruit picker, Tarot card reader, jobbing gardener and professional salesman of educational resources, he entered higher education in 2003 as a mature student at Trinity College Dublin where he was elected a Scholar, awarded a first-class degree in English Studies and conferred with his PhD.

• Introduction 1. ‘The True-Born Englishman’: The Construction of a Persona 2. The Family Instructor: One-sided dialogue 3. Robinson Crusoe: Spoken by an Other 4. Captain Singleton: Incommensurable Exchanges 5. Questionable Identities: Moll Flanders and Roxana 6. Not Imaginary but Fictitious: Defoe and the Apparitions of Fiction

Christopher Borsing teaches in the School of English, TCD and in the Open Education Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland. After a varied career as building labourer, kitchen porter, itinerant fruit picker, Tarot card reader, jobbing gardener and professional salesman of educational resources, he entered higher education in 2003 as a mature student at Trinity College Dublin where he was elected a Scholar, awarded a first-class degree in English Studies and conferred with his PhD.

• Introduction 1. ‘The True-Born Englishman’: The Construction of a Persona 2. The Family Instructor: One-sided dialogue 3. Robinson Crusoe: Spoken by an Other 4. Captain Singleton: Incommensurable Exchanges 5. Questionable Identities: Moll Flanders and Roxana 6. Not Imaginary but Fictitious: Defoe and the Apparitions of Fiction

Christopher Borsing teaches in the School of English, TCD and in the Open Education Unit, Dublin City University, Ireland. After a varied career as building labourer, kitchen porter, itinerant fruit picker, Tarot card reader, jobbing gardener and professional salesman of educational resources, he entered higher education in 2003 as a mature student at Trinity College Dublin where he was elected a Scholar, awarded a first-class degree in English Studies and conferred with his PhD.

• Introduction 1. ‘The True-Born Englishman’: The Construction of a Persona 2. The Family Instructor: One-sided dialogue 3. Robinson Crusoe: Spoken by an Other 4. Captain Singleton: Incommensurable Exchanges 5. Questionable Identities: Moll Flanders and Roxana 6. Not Imaginary but Fictitious: Defoe and the Apparitions of Fiction