Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
PMThat all Defoe's novels, with the exception of 'Robinson Crusoe,'' should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that three generations or so ago, Defoe's works were edited by both Sir Walter Scott and Hazliit, and that this masterly piece of realism, 'Captain Singleton,' was reprinted a few years back in 'The Camelot Classics,' but it is safe to say that out of every thousand readers of 'Robinson Crusoe' only one or two will have even heard of the 'Memoirs of a Cavalier,' 'Colonel Jack,' 'Moll Flanders,' or 'Captain Singleton'.
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (辛格頓船長)
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
PMThat all Defoe's novels, with the exception of 'Robinson Crusoe,'' should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that three generations or so ago, Defoe's works were edited by both Sir Walter Scott and Hazliit, and that this masterly piece of realism, 'Captain Singleton,' was reprinted a few years back in 'The Camelot Classics,' but it is safe to say that out of every thousand readers of 'Robinson Crusoe' only one or two will have even heard of the 'Memoirs of a Cavalier,' 'Colonel Jack,' 'Moll Flanders,' or 'Captain Singleton'.
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
PMThat all Defoe's novels, with the exception of 'Robinson Crusoe,'' should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that three generations or so ago, Defoe's works were edited by both Sir Walter Scott and Hazliit, and that this masterly piece of realism, 'Captain Singleton,' was reprinted a few years back in 'The Camelot Classics,' but it is safe to say that out of every thousand readers of 'Robinson Crusoe' only one or two will have even heard of the 'Memoirs of a Cavalier,' 'Colonel Jack,' 'Moll Flanders,' or 'Captain Singleton'.
Catalogue
Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Bond Street Branch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity
Author: Christopher Borsing
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317247612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like many of this age, had religious difficulties with Locke’s empiricist analysis of human identity. In particular, it examines how Defoe explores competitive individualism as a social threat while also demonstrating the literary and psychological fiction of any concept of a separated, lone identity. This foreshadows Michel Foucault’s assertion that the idea of man is ‘a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge’. The monograph’s engagement with Defoe’s destabilization of any definition or image of personal identity across a wide range of genres – including satire, political propaganda, history, conduct literature, travel narrative, spiritual autobiography, piracy and history, economic and scientific literature, rogue biography, scandalous and secret history, dystopian documentary, science fiction and apparition narrative - is an important and original contribution to the literary and cultural understanding of the early eighteenth century as it interrogates and challenges modern presumptions of individual identity.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317247612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like many of this age, had religious difficulties with Locke’s empiricist analysis of human identity. In particular, it examines how Defoe explores competitive individualism as a social threat while also demonstrating the literary and psychological fiction of any concept of a separated, lone identity. This foreshadows Michel Foucault’s assertion that the idea of man is ‘a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge’. The monograph’s engagement with Defoe’s destabilization of any definition or image of personal identity across a wide range of genres – including satire, political propaganda, history, conduct literature, travel narrative, spiritual autobiography, piracy and history, economic and scientific literature, rogue biography, scandalous and secret history, dystopian documentary, science fiction and apparition narrative - is an important and original contribution to the literary and cultural understanding of the early eighteenth century as it interrogates and challenges modern presumptions of individual identity.
Catalogue of the New York Free Circulating Library
Author: New York. Free Circulating Library. Jackson Square Branch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Adventures in American Literature
Author: Rewey Belle Inglis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Fiction, Folklore, Fantasy & Poetry for Children, 1876-1985: Authors, illustrators
Author:
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
Great Illustrated Classics
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Classics
ISBN: 9781577655336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more
Publisher: Classics
ISBN: 9781577655336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more
The Spotlight
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Volume Library
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
The Motion Picture Guide
Author: Jay Robert Nash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description