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The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe By Daniel Defoe

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe by Daniel Defoe


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This is the standard, authoritative edition of Defoe's letters, vital for historians, literary scholars, and students of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. Including full biographical, literary, and historical information, this edition offers a unique picture of the writer who arguably created the modern novel and political journalism.

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe Summary

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe by Daniel Defoe

This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript habits.

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe Reviews

'This authoritative edition gives insights into a range of contemporary events and preoccupations: colonization, religious controversy, communication and transport networks, the publishing trade and relations between authors and printers, the operation of eighteenth-century spymasters and methods of political fact-finding. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of the period, not least the Union with Scotland and the Hanoverian Succession.' Margarette Lincoln, Times Literary Supplement
'Nicholas Seager's outstanding and painstaking scholarship has created an edition that deserves to be the standard by which we measure for at least the next 50 years.' Kit Kincade, NPEC Reviews
' this edition is a truly splendid literary and literary-critical trove Hard to imagine it being outdone or superseded. Plainly, as Defoe might say, final words.' Valentine Cunningham, The Glass

About Daniel Defoe

Nicholas Seager is Head of the School of Humanities and Professor in English Literature at Keele University. He has published on literature of the long eighteenth century, including on Bunyan, Swift, Defoe, Haywood, Johnson, Sterne, Goldsmith, and Austen. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (2022).

Table of Contents

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Editorial Principles and Practice; Chronology; Conventions and Abbreviations; Calendar of Letters; Introduction; The Letters I; Select Bibliography; Index.

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NPB9781107133099
9781107133099
1107133092
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe by Daniel Defoe
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-09-29
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