“The Life of Daniel Defoe” examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. • Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe • Places emphasis on Defoe's distinctive style and rhetoric • Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant
