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Biographical

Beyond Belief: The Real Life of Daniel Defoe
by John Martin
Accent Press, 2007
"A startling new biography revealing the secret life
of the author of "Robingson Crusoe," "Moll Flanders,"
and "Roxana." Martin draws from his extensive research
to provide the first account of Defoe's real life as
a highly talented religious Dissenter whose pious
demeanour masked a very different double life. His
complex and various careers were paralleled by great
personal confusion." —The Publisher.

Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography
by John Richetti
Blackwell, 2005
"Examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context
of what is known about his life and opinions. The book provides
a commentary on most of his voluminous political, religious, moral,
and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions.
All these works are situated in the precise historical circumstances
of the eighteenth century in which Defoe was an important and active
participant." —The Publisher.

Daniel Defoe: His Life
by Paula R. Backscheider
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
"Backscheider reveals... "a man struggling to reconcile
conflicting loyalties and competing strategies" but always
trying to be useful, well thought of, and rich, a loyal
Dissenter though he may have been excommunicated. Multi-
faceted and multitalented—journalist, merchant, novelist,
spy—Defoe emerges as complex yet comprehensible. The work
also paints a clear picture of Defoe's political, social,
and economic milieu... this well-written, well-illustrated book
is a necessary addition to all collections."
—Joseph Rosenblum on Amazon.com

Works

Robinson Crusoe
(Norton Critical Editions)
by Daniel Defoe (Author), Michael Shinagel (Editor)
W. W. Norton, 1994 (2nd Ed.)
"The most authoritative text available with contextual
and critical materials that bring the work to life for
students. Careful editing, first-rate translation,
thorough explanatory annotations, chronologies, and
selected bibliographies make each text accessible to
students while encouraging in-depth study."
—The Publisher

Robinson Crusoe
(Norton Critical Editions)
by Daniel Defoe (Author), Albert J. Rivero (Editor)
W. W. Norton, 2004 (2nd Ed.)
"The most authoritative text available with contextual
and critical materials that bring the work to life for
students. Careful editing, first-rate translation,
thorough explanatory annotations, chronologies, and
selected bibliographies make each text accessible to
students while encouraging in-depth study."
—The Publisher

A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe (Author), Jason Goodwin (Editor)
Modern Library, 2001
"Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept
London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing.
Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious
research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line
between fiction, history, and reportage.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from
the original edition published in 1722."
—The Publisher

The True-Born Englishman & Other Writings
by Defoe, Philip Nicholas Furbank and W. R. Owens (Eds)
Penguin, 2007
"This collection brings together 13 pieces of Defoe's
early, radical writings, written between 1679 and 1706.
The book includes his verse satire on English chauvinism,
"The True-Born Englishman", his satire on High Church
intolerance, and his bold and humane proposals in
"An Essay Upon Projects"." —The Publisher

Roxana: Or the Fortunate Mistress
by Daniel Defoe
Tuttle Publishing/Everyman Library, 1999
This Everyman Library edition retains all original
spelling and punctuation, with a good introduction
to Defoe and Roxana.

Criticism

Daniel Defoe: The Whole Frame of Nature, Time and Providence
by Katherine Clark
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
"Examines Daniel Defoe's capacity to perceive fundamental
historical change and long-term social process in light
of his observations on liberty, property, trade, warfare,
religion, and manners. It establishes Defoe as the crucial
figure between the age of John Locke and the age of Smith
and Hume in the evolution of eighteenth-century theories
about commerce and conquest, religious toleration, and
civil society." —The Publisher

Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'
by Manuel Schonhorn
Cambridge University Press, 2006
"Offering a full examination of Defoe's years as a political
reporter and journalist, it recovers his traditional, conservative
and anti-Lockean ideas on contemporary issues: the origins of society,
the role of the people in the establishment of a political society
and how monarchies are created and maintained as the means of achieving
a beneficent political order. At the heart of Defoe's political imagination,
Manuel Schonhorn finds the vision of a warrior-king, derived from sources
in the Bible, and in ancient and English history. The model illuminates his
original reading of Robinson Crusoe, which emerges less in terms of a family
romance, a tract for the rising bourgeoisie or a Lockean parable of government,
than as a dramatic re-enactment of Defoe's life-long political preoccupations
concerning society, government and kingship." —The Publisher

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