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Daniel Defoe
His Life
Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen—and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it. This is the definitive biography of one of eighteenth-century England's most influential figures—and one of the most prolific and widely read authors of all time
About the Author
Paula Backscheider is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry, both published by Johns Hopkins.
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"For the first time everything we know about Defoe is presented in a single orderly sequence..A searching study of a complex man, one that is coherent and credible for our times."
"A very considerable work of scholarship, and the first to give this prolific writer the extended treatment he after all deserves."
"Paula Backscheider spins this absorbing narrative with meticulous scholarship and lucidity."
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Other Titles by Paula R. Backscheider
Women in Wartime
The Excursion
Daniel Defoe
Other Titles in LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel
Winter Fruit
The Religious Sublime
Other Titles in Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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Approaches to Teaching The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus)
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega