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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781289203321

Autore

Abse Leo

Titolo

The Bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe : A Psychoanalytic Survey of the Man and His Works / / by Leo Abse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2006

ISBN

0-429-92019-9

0-429-90596-3

0-429-48119-5

1-283-06897-4

9786613068972

1-84940-499-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

823.5

Soggetti

Bisexuality - History

Bisexuality in literature

Psychoanalysis - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE The genius of Daniel Defoe; CHAPTER TWO The Historical Collections; CHAPTER THREE The negative Oedipus complex; CHAPTER FOUR The thrills of risk-taking; CHAPTER FIVE Cannibalism; CHAPTER SIX The plague: defying Thanatos; CHAPTER SEVEN The storm; CHAPTER EIGHT The voyeur; CHAPTER NINE The spy; CHAPTER TEN Coprophilia and creativity; CHAPTER ELEVEN Captain Singleton: the ablation of Alice Defoe; CHAPTER TWELVE The birth traumas of Sheppard, Wild and Defoe; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The preacher; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The feminist; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Crusoe's island

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Moll FlandersCHAPTER SEVENTEEN Roxana; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Apocalypse: The Political History of the Devil; CHAPTER NINETEEN Epilogue

Sommario/riassunto

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth



year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has also been awarded accolades for being the 'Father of Journalism', the most successful spy in British history, the precursor to contemporary depth psychologists, the most daring of early feminists, the most devious of confidence tricksters and fraudulent entrepreneurs, the unsurpassed travelogue presenter, the first spin-doctor and speech-writer to a king. Hurling his defiances against the Established Church and Roman Catholicism, he was also the intrepid upholder of dissenting beliefs.The author deploys his forensic skills as a distinguished criminal lawyer and reforming parliamentarian to present an intriguing and novel Freudian overview of all Defoe's major works.