Secret Purposes
P.N. Furbank, 19 September 1985
Defoe and the Idea of Fiction: 1713-1719
by Geoffrey Sill.
Associated University Presses, 190 pp., £16.95, April 1984,0 87413 227 4 Show More
by Geoffrey Sill.
Associated University Presses, 190 pp., £16.95, April 1984,
The Elusive Daniel Defoe
by Laura Curtis.
Vision, 216 pp., £15.95, January 1984,0 85478 435 7 Show More
by Laura Curtis.
Vision, 216 pp., £15.95, January 1984,
Realism, Myth and History in Defoe’s Fiction
by Maximillian Novak.
Nebraska, 181 pp., £21.55, July 1983,0 8032 3307 8 Show More
by Maximillian Novak.
Nebraska, 181 pp., £21.55, July 1983,
“... We owe a large debt to the famous chapter on Robinson Crusoe in Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel. Watt really made us use our wits about that novel and forced us to relate it to our most serious interests. Reread after twenty years, moreover, the chapter still has all of its intellectual impact and verve ... ”