Fugitive Crusoe
Tom Paulin: Daniel Defoe, 19 July 2001
Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions
by Maximilian Novak.
Oxford, 756 pp., £30, April 2001,0 19 812686 7 Show More
by Maximilian Novak.
Oxford, 756 pp., £30, April 2001,
Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe
edited by W.R. Owens and P.N. Furbank.
Pickering & Chatto, £595, December 2000,1 85196 465 7 Show More
edited by W.R. Owens and P.N. Furbank.
Pickering & Chatto, £595, December 2000,
“... him to various other forms of secrecy’. He was to become a government spy when Robert Harley was Lord High Treasurer (effectively Prime Minister) and he uses the word ‘secret’ obsessively in Crusoe (it occurs five times on one page). Novak sees his experience of prison and the survival strategies to which it led as crucial to his ... ”