Before Crusoe: Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry

ISBN-13: 9780367134815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 178 str.

Penny Pritchard

Opis

Offering new perspective on the 1719 literary watershed that was Robinson Crusoe, this work argues that Defoe established a new form of moral authority through the spectrum of ‘voices’ which articulate his earlier works.

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O autorze

Penny Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has taught at the University of Hertfordshire since completing her PhD in 2006. Both her doctoral thesis (entitled ‘Defoe, Rhetoric, and Nonconformity’) and MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies were undertaken at the University of East Anglia. Her first book, (The Long Eighteenth- Century: Literature from 1660 to 1790), was published by York Press in 2010, and she has written extensively on Defoe and early modern religious writing in academic journals and chapter collections.