Defoe’s major fiction: accounting for the self
Auteur :
Napier, Elizabeth R.
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781611496154
Date de publication :
28 mai 2019
Dimensions :
22,0 x 15,2 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
281 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book argues that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on moral accountability and self-definition, and addresses Defoe’s characters, narration, aesthetic, and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.