Before Crusoe: Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry
- Submitting institution
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University of Hertfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 16341137
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367134815
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 80,000-word monograph re-examines the cultural genesis of Robinson Crusoe. It argues that, through the spectrum of ‘voices’ articulating his earlier works, Defoe establishes new forms of moral authority which shape the early English novel. Critical insight therefore focuses on Defoe’s writing before 1719, which was highly popular in the period but remains unfamiliar to general readers. The work demonstrates how, via myriad anonymised personae across a diverse canon, Defoe emulates – and sometimes mimics - the rhetorical and moral postures of that most influential contemporary cohort of moral authority figures, the clergy, even while pointedly distancing himself from them.
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- Non-English
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