The Disappointing, Parenthetical Providence of God in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year
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DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frab013
Abstract: Daniel Defoe’s fictional narrators talk often about God’s providence but not usually to appeal to an overarching social or natural order, to solve problems of theodicy, or to claim special divine attention. In the Bible… read more here.
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Daniel Defoe and Abandoned Life
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DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2017.0000
Abstract: Daniel Defoe’s exemplary status in cultural histories of the novel rests upon the premise that his fiction anticipates the rise of bourgeois civil society—a shift in social relations precipitated by the disarticulation of labor and… read more here.
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Sociality and Good-Faith Economy in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
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DOI: 10.3138/ecf.30.2.153
Abstract: Abstract:Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe was long hailed as the founding myth of "Economic Man," with critics until the mid-twentieth century tending to portray the shipwrecked narrator as the exemplar of utilitarian individualism. The… read more here.
Keywords: crusoe; daniel defoe; robinson crusoe; sociality good ... See more keywords