Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… desperately to define an accurate canon of titles that can be definitively attributed to Defoe. 10 Even the now famous novels, Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana (1724) cannot be unreservedly thought to be written by Defoe; neither work … Quarterly (vol. 89, n°2/3, Spring 2010), p. 209-241; P. N. Furbank, P.N. & W. R. Owens, ‘On the Attribution of Novels to Daniel Defoe’, Philological Quarterly (vol. 89, n° 2/3, Spring 2010), p. 243-253. Defoe crafted a public … the ability of print to mislead and conceal as much as it could reveal. Whilst Defoe is known to most people today as a novelist, and above all as the author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), he was known to contemporaries as a satirist who had …
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