Defoe and the Whig Novel

A Reading of the Major Fiction

AvLeon Guilhamet

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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his study places Defoe's major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his greatest inspiration from popular print culture. This study reads the novels as reflections of mainstream Whig social and political concerns, the same concerns Defoe revealed in his verse and expository writings before and after his major period of fiction writing, 1719-24.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-05-01
Mått:165 x 245 x 19 mm
Vikt:497 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of Delaware Press
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781611491449

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Leon Guilhamet is professor of English at the City College of New York.

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Guilhamet revisits the writings of Daniel Defoe to evaluate them in terms of cultural and political Whig themes. While Defoe did not slavishly follow one strand or another of Whiggism, he did subscribe to its social and cultural foundations. Guilhamet demonstrates that, through his characters, Defoe presents the stories of those whom society has failed. Religious themes are also presented in the light of the spiritual burden of poverty. These informed Defoe's ideas of repentance and forgiveness. Guilhamet looks at Defoe's major novels as signaling the birth of the Whig novel.