Defoe's major fiction : accounting for the self / Elizabeth R. Napier.

By:

Napier, Elizabeth R, 1950- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781611496147
1611496144

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Defoe's major fictionDDC classification:

823/.5 23

LOC classification:

PR3407

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Contents:

1. "Strange relations" -- 2. "Meer manage" : the performing self -- 3. "What am I a whore for now?" : the compulsive self -- 4. "Trusty agents" : the divided self -- Epilogue: Discovering the self -- Coda.

Summary: This book examines the concern with narrativity and self-construction in Defoe's first-person fictional narratives. Arguing that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on issues of moral accountability and self-definition, it addresses the need to examine more sharply Defoe's novelistic achievement in the realm of character and narration and those aesthetic and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book examines the concern with narrativity and self-construction in Defoe's first-person fictional narratives. Arguing that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on issues of moral accountability and self-definition, it addresses the need to examine more sharply Defoe's novelistic achievement in the realm of character and narration and those aesthetic and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.

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