Defoe De-Attributions: Critique of J.R.Moore's Checklist

by W.R. Owens

Daniel Defoe was one of the most important and best-known writers of the eighteenth century but there is a feeling among scholars that the Defoe 'canon' is a remarkably strange and not very satisfactory construction. Between 1790, when the first bibliography of Defoe appeared, and 1971, when J.R. Moore published the second edition of his Checklist, the canon had swollen from just over a hundred items to 570. A large proportion of these attributions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852851287
• ISBN13: 9781852851286
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.7"