Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with His Vision of the Angelick World

The Stoke Newington Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-68448-330-3
Verlag: Bucknell University Press

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoewith his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Defoe, Daniel

Novak, Maximillian E

Rothman, Irving N

Schonhorn, Manuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK is a Distinguished Research Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. He has written widely on Defoe, including his biography, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions. He has also written on John Dryden, William Congreve, and the Resotration and eighteenth century in general. 

IRVING N. ROTHMAN was a professor of English at the University of Houston in Texas. He was the textual editor for the Stoke Newington Edition of Daniel Defoe, and editor of Defoe’s Political History of the Devil and two volumes of Defoe’s Family Instructor.

MANUEL SCHONHORN is a professor emeritus of British and American literature at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He was the first recipient of the British Library-Newberry Library Exchange Fellowship.