The Resource Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing, Lincoln B. Faller, (electronic resource)
Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing, Lincoln B. Faller, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the 'literary', even 'aesthetic' qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analysing the ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of 'literary' texts against those of a more 'ordinary' form of narrative.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 263 pages)
- Contents
-
- 1. Romancing the real: the "field" of criminal biography
- 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves
- 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it
- 4. Intimations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged, and kept in play by strange concurrences
- 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the text as a field supporting very nice distinctions
- 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the addition and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names
- 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self and the symbolic order
- Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense, and empty spaces
- Isbn
- 9780521060332
- Label
- Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing
- Title
- Crime and Defoe
- Title remainder
- a new kind of writing
- Statement of responsibility
- Lincoln B. Faller
- Title variation
- Crime & Defoe
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the 'literary', even 'aesthetic' qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analysing the ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of 'literary' texts against those of a more 'ordinary' form of narrative.--
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- Faller, Lincoln B
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
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- Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought
- ACLS Humanities E-Book
- Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
- Series volume
- 16
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Defoe, Daniel
- Crime
- Criminals
- Social problems in literature
- Criminals in literature
- Crime in literature
- Label
- Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing, Lincoln B. Faller, (electronic resource)
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- online resource
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- Contents
- 1. Romancing the real: the "field" of criminal biography -- 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves -- 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it -- 4. Intimations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged, and kept in play by strange concurrences -- 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the text as a field supporting very nice distinctions -- 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the addition and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names -- 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self and the symbolic order -- Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense, and empty spaces
- Control code
- CR9780511553455
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 263 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9780521060332
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- computer
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- rdamedia
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)558424592
- Label
- Crime and Defoe : a new kind of writing, Lincoln B. Faller, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Romancing the real: the "field" of criminal biography -- 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves -- 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it -- 4. Intimations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged, and kept in play by strange concurrences -- 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the text as a field supporting very nice distinctions -- 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the addition and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names -- 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self and the symbolic order -- Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense, and empty spaces
- Control code
- CR9780511553455
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 263 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9780521060332
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)558424592
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