| Description |
xi, 756 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [707]-740) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- After the Revolution -- Education of a dissenter -- Meditating on matters spiritual and secular -- Marriage and rebellion -- Financial woes and recovery -- Propagandist for William III -- True-born Englishman and other satires -- Age of plot and deceit, of contradiction and paradox -- From pilloried libeller to government propagandist -- Writing history sheet by sheet : Defoe, The review, and The storm -- From public journalist to lunar philosopher -- Defoe as spy and Whig propagandist -- True spy in Scotland -- In limbo between causes and masters -- Journalism and history in an age of mysteries and paradoxes -- How to sell out while keeping one's integrity (somewhat) intact in that lunatick age -- These dangerous times : or wild doings in this world -- Miserable divided nation -- Change of monarchs and the Whig's revenge -- Times when honest men must reserve themselves for better fortunes -- Corrector general of the press : a digression on Defoe as a journalist -- Year before Robinson Crusoe : intellectual controversies and experiments in fiction -- Robinson Crusoe and the variability of life -- After Crusoe : pirate adventures, military memoirs and the South Sea scandal -- Creating fictional worlds -- Describing Britain in the 1720s -- Enter Henry Baker -- Last productive years -- Sinking under the weight of affliction. |
| Subject |
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
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Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
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Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Added Title |
Daniel Defoe--master of fictions |
| ISBN |
0198126867 (acid-free paper) |
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