02536nam 2200517 450 991046353120332120170822103727.01-61149-528-81-61149-486-9(CKB)2670000000574394(EBL)1832665(SSID)ssj0001368956(PQKBManifestationID)12464978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368956(PQKBWorkID)11307104(PQKB)11442249(MiAaPQ)EBC1832665(EXLCZ)99267000000057439420150310h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives finding the thing itself /Maximillian E. NovakNewark, [Delaware] :University of Delaware Press,2015.©20151 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61149-485-0 1-322-24903-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Defoe as an Innovator of Fictional Form; 2 Picturing the Thing Itself, or Not; 3 The Unmentionable and the Ineffable in Defoe's Fiction; 4 Novel or Fictional Memoir; 5 Meatless Fridays; 6 Edenic Desires; 7 Strangely Surpriz'd by Robinson Crusoe; 8 "Looking with Wonder upon the Sea"; 9 The Cave and the Grotto; 10 "The Sum of Humane Misery"?; 11 Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period Following the French Revolution; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author<span><span>Writer Daniel Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction in short stories, but in turning himself into a novel-length writer, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through patterns of language, imagery, and intellectual play. This book establishes the complexities and originality of Defoe as a writer.</span></span>Realism in literatureElectronic books.Realism in literature.823/.5Novak Maximillian E.131989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463531203321Transformations, ideology, and the real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives2252727UNINA