Defoe's Major Fiction - Hardcover

by Elizabeth R. Napier (Author)

This book argues that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on moral accountability and self-definition, and addresses Defoe's characters, narration, aesthetic, and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.

Author Biography

Elizabeth R. Napier is professor of English and American literatures at Middlebury College.