{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-daniel-defoe-9780198827177","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe\u003c\/em\u003e is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Journal of the Plague Year, \u003c\/em\u003e but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this \u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The \u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Seager, J. A. Downie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 7.20w x 2.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198827177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Seager, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities, Keele University\u003c\/em\u003e, J. A. Downie, \u003cem\u003eEmeritus Professor of English, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He has published on literature of the long eighteenth century, including Bunyan, Swift, Defoe, Richardson, Johnson, Sterne, Goldsmith, and Austen. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). He has recently completed an edition of Defoe's \u003cem\u003eThe Fortunate Mistress\u003c\/em\u003e for Oxford World's Classics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJ. A. Downie is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1991 to 1995 and Pro-Warden (Academic) from 1995 to 2002. His books include \u003cem\u003eRobert Harley and the Press\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), \u003cem\u003eJonathan Swift, Political Writer\u003c\/em\u003e (1984), \u003cem\u003eTo Settle the Succession of the State: Literature and Politics, 1678-1750\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), and \u003cem\u003eA Political Biography of Henry Fielding\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). He edited two volumes in the Pickering Masters edition of The Works of Daniel Defoe. He also edited of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel\u003c\/em\u003e (2016).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43257860784243,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":322.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b394a364-192f-4cb2-8e05-b353d3e81c2b.jpg?v=1754569037","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-daniel-defoe-9780198827177","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}