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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1851964657
ISBN-13: 9781851964659
Mar 2001
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Pickering Masters Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This compendium of Defoe's enormous body of writings on politics and economics is the first of a 44-volume edition of his entire oeuvre. It includes his opinions on Scottish nationalism, bankruptcy and debt (of which he had ample personal experience), education for women, and the dangers of "Popery."
| Details | | Series: | Pickering Masters Series |
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 20.0 in | | Weight: | 204.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"In the past, Defoe has seemed a haphazard writer; opportunistic, rapid, various....This edition is given over to changing this image through the very structure of its volumes. Beginning with POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC WRITINGS gives priority to this aspect of Defoe's work and life. He is taken to be a writer whose most passionate interests spring from the constitutional and religious conflicts of the late seventeenth century....It almost makes Defoe respectable, but takes a good deal of explanation...to make him consistent. The final impression is still of a writer who, by force of circumstance and gift of temperament, spent much of his time ducking and diving."
Times Literary Supplement - John Mullan (06/01/2001)
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