Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives : Finding the Thing Itself.

Intro -- Title Page -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Defoe as an Innovator of Fictional Form -- Picturing the Thing Itself, or Not -- The Unmentionable and the Ineffable in Defoe's Fiction -- Novel or Fictional Memoir -- Meatless Fridays -- Edenic Desires -- Strangely Surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe -- "Looking with Wonder upon the Sea" -- The Cave and the Grotto -- "The Sum of Humane Misery"? -- Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period Following the French Revolution -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Writer Daniel Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction in short stories, but in turning himself into a novel-length writer, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through patterns of language, imagery, and intellectual play. This book establishes the complexities and originality of Defoe as a writer.

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