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Defoe and the Whig Novel

A Reading of the Major Fiction

Defoe and the Whig Novel( )
Author: Guilhamet, Leon
ISBN:978-1-61149-144-9
Publication Date:May 2010
Publisher:University of Delaware Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $107.00
Book Description:

his study places Defoe's major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his greatest inspiration from popular print culture. This study reads the novels as reflections of mainstream Whig social and political concerns, the same concerns Defoe revealed in his verse and expository...
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