Description: Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Daniel Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive overview available of his life, times, writings, and reception.
Review Quotes: "The book offers a summative report on the current state of Defoe studies while also elucidating future forms of inquiry in several different directions. The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe aptly demonstrates the range as well as the depth of understanding found in thismost prolific of literary authors.Indeed, due to Defoe's intimate acquaintance with and participation in most aspects of his world, the Handbook, while brilliantly illuminating Defoe, exhibits a panoramic primer of the late Restoration and early Augustan periods." -- Modern Philology