Daniel Defoe: Ambition and Innovation - Paperback

by Paula R. Backscheider (Author)

In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive readi

Author Biography

Paula R. Backscheider, associate professor of English at the University of Rochester, is the author of A Being More Intense: The Prose Works of Bunyan, Swift, and Defoe.