Daniel Defoe: His Life

by Paula R. Backscheider

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Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his daring business ventures, his dangerous pen--and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it. This is the definitive show more biography of one of eighteenth-century England's most influential figures--and one of the most prolific and widely read authors of all time show less

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Paula R. Backscheider
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Paula R. Backscheider is the West Point Pepperell-Philpott Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University.

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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir
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823.5 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1702-1745
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PR3406 .B24 — Language and Literature English English Literature 17th and 18th centuries (1640-1770)
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