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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    'Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon ArmitageDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe**, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island.**The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

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  • The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    For more than two hundred years, Robinson Crusoe’s story was encountered by generations of readers as one text in two parts, such that the second novel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, constituted a clear continuation of the protagonist’s eventful life. In the first part of this sequel, Crusoe returns to his island to advise and protect a diverse community of castaways, but in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Clubbable Man

    Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham

    by Anthony W. Lee, Philip Smallwood, David Hopkins, Adam Rounce, Aaron R. Hanlon, Robert G. Walker, Gordon Turnbull, Martine Brownley, Cedric D. Reverand II, John Richetti0, Clement Hawes1, Bärbel Czennia2, Kevin L. Cope3, Dominic Jermey4, Elaine Wood5, Caroline Fassett6, Joseph McNicholas7, Margaret Williams8, Erin Labbie9, Patrick Thomas Henry0, Adam Walker1, Kang Tchou2, Gary Sojka3, Nina Forsberg4, Daniel Little5, James Rice6, John Rickard7, Antjie Krog8, Kieron Winn9, Emily Grosholz0, Harry Thomas1, Kate Parker2 ...
    Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe'

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Reflections on Sentiment

    Essays in Honor of George Starr

    by Barbara Benedict, James P. Carson, Alison Conway, Amy J. Pawl, Joanna Picciotto, John Richetti, George Haggerty, Geoffrey Sill, Simon Stern ...
    Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism in what was once reductively termed an age of reason and realism. Due to the critique ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • New Essays on Samuel Johnson

    Revaluation

    by Greg Clingham, Anthony W. Lee, Thomas M. Curley, Emily C. Friedman, Katherine Kickel, Lynda Mugglestone, John Richetti, Steven Scherwatzky, John Sitter, Paul Tankard0, Adam Rounce1 ...
    New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Life of Daniel Defoe

    A Critical Biography

    by John Richetti ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions.Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson CrusoePlaces emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoricSituates his work within the ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature

    by John Richetti ...
    Series series Blackwell History of Literature
    A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have ... Read more

    $63.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole ... Read more

    Was $32.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • The Age of Johnson

    A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24)

    by Stephen Clarke, Marcus Walsh, Matthew Davis, Anthony W. Lee, Paul Tankard, Susan Kubica Howard, Suzanna Geiser, Peter Briggs, David Venturo, Eric Bennett, John Richetti, Jacob Sider Jost, Robert DeMaria, Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock ...
    Series Book 24 - The Age of Johnson
    The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The English Novel in History 1700-1780

    by John Richetti ...
    The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD