LEADER 04153nam 22006252 450 001 996248128403316 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a0-511-55345-5 035 $a(CKB)2660000000000241 035 $a(MH)003207889-7 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333221 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11271556 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333221 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10335860 035 $a(PQKB)11199072 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511553455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4640204 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000000241 100 $a20090513d1993|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCrime and Defoe $ea new kind of writing /$fLincoln B. Faller$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1993. 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 263 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;$v16 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-06033-8 311 $a0-521-42086-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the 'literary', even 'aesthetic' qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analysing the ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of 'literary' texts against those of a more 'ordinary' form of narrative. 410 0$aCambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;$v16. 517 3 $aCrime & Defoe 606 $aCrime$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century$xHistoriography 606 $aCriminals$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocial problems in literature 606 $aCriminals in literature 606 $aCrime in literature 615 0$aCrime$xHistory$xHistoriography. 615 0$aCriminals$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 615 0$aCriminals in literature. 615 0$aCrime in literature. 676 $a823/.5 700 $aFaller$b Lincoln B.$0312786 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248128403316 996 $aCrime and Defoe$9712716 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress