Robert M. Maniquis is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Carl Fisher is a professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics at California State University, Long Beach.

Defoe's Footprints brings together a clutch of penetrating, searching, and altogether fascinating essays on various aspects of Defoe's life and work. Each exhibits a triangulation unique to this sort of volume... The result is consistently riveting. - Prof. Jonathan Kramnick, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol 50:03:2010

• Introduction Robert M. Maniquis and Carl Fisher1 Defoe's Silences Stuart Sherman2 The Atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe / Jayne Lewis3 Poetic Footprints: Some Formal Issues in Defoe's Poetry J. Paul Hunter4 Mimesis/Mimesis and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel: Representation and Knowledge John Richetti5 Robinson Crusoe and the Semiotic Crisis of the Eighteenth Century Robert Folkenflik6 Powerful Affections: Slaves, Servants, and Labours of Love in Defoe's Writing Roxann Wheeler7 Defoe's 'Black Prince': Elitism, Cpaitalism, and Cultural Difference Laura Brown8 'The Project and the People': Defoe on the South Sea Bubble and the Public Good Carl Fisher9 The Writer as Hero from Jonson to Fielding Manuel Schonhorn10 Robinson Trousseau: Joyce's Defoe Michael Seidel11 The Novel as Modern Myth John Bender 12 Maximilian E. Novak: A BibliographyContributorsIndex