Product Description: This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in Defoe’s work by probing his interest in rendering of reality (what Defoe called “the Thing itself”)...read more

Product Description: Israel Joshua Singer was a household name in the 1920s and 1930s among readers of modern literature. Among novelists writing in Yiddish, he was justly regarded as the premier artist of his time. And while his fame may have been eclipsed by that of his brother, I...read more

Product Description: "The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789)...read more

Product Description: Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text...read more

Product Description: Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume attempts to explore some of the many aspects of sensibility throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century. The essays examine the fine distinctions between definitions of sensibility as well as a wide range of possibilities and implications involving political theory, imperial ambitions, homosocial codes of language, and the ways in which sensibility manifested itself in the literature of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An essential book on Defoe's fiction.

Product Description: These essays trace the myth of the wild man from the Middle Ages to its disintegration into symbol in the periods following the discovery of America and encounter with real “wild men.”  This is the first book to discuss the concept of wildness in the writings of the Enlightenment period in Western Europe and the first to attempt a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of primitivism, not only from a strict “history of ideas” approach, but through discussions of individual works, both literary and political, and encompassing various subject matter from racism to the origins of language...read more