| The Text of Great Britain: Theme and Design in Defoe's Tour Contributor(s): Rogers, Pat (Author) |
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ISBN: 0874136172 ISBN-13: 9780874136173 Publisher: University of Delaware Press OUR PRICE: $95.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 914.104 |
| LCCN: 97000727 |
| Series: Apple- Zimmerman Early Modern |
| Physical Information: 247 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the first full-length analysis of one of the key books of the eighteenth century -- Daniel Defoe's Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. The creation of Defoe's Tour, its sources and models, and its relationship to earlier topographic literature are discussed. The Text of Great Britain argues that Defoe evolved a rhetorical design that would express his sense of Britain as a working system constructed around cities, the countryside, and roads to form an intelligible whole. |