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Defoe and the Whig Novel
Leon Guilhamet
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Hardback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
his study places Defoe's major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his greatest inspiration from popular print culture. This study reads the novels as reflections of mainstream Whig social and political concerns, the same concerns Defoe revealed in his verse and expository writings before and after his major period of fiction writing, 1719-24.
his study places Defoe's major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his greatest inspiration from popular print culture. This study reads the novels as reflections of mainstream Whig social and political concerns, the same concerns Defoe revealed in his verse and expository writings before and after his major period of fiction writing, 1719-24.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491449
SKU
V9781611491449
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About Leon Guilhamet
Leon Guilhamet is professor of English at the City College of New York.
Reviews for Defoe and the Whig Novel
Guilhamet revisits the writings of Daniel Defoe to evaluate them in terms of cultural and political Whig themes. While Defoe did not slavishly follow one strand or another of Whiggism, he did subscribe to its social and cultural foundations. Guilhamet demonstrates that, through his characters, Defoe presents the stories of those whom society has failed. Religious themes are also presented ... Read more