Crime and Defoe a new kind of writing
This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, no...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1993
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Romancing the real: the "field" of criminal biography
- 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves
- 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it
- 4. Intimations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged, and kept in play by strange concurrences
- 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the text as a field supporting very nice distinctions
- 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the addition and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names
- 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self and the symbolic order
- Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense, and empty spaces