A Defoe Companion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Making of a Novelist

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 3-16

   3. Defoe’s Literary Achievement

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 17-39

   4. A Defoe Dictionary

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 40-44

   5. Key to the Characters and Locations

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 45-57

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. The Shorter Fiction

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 61-66

   3. Robinson Crusoe

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 67-79

   4. Memoirs of a Cavalier

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 80-85

   5. Captain Singleton

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 86-94

   6. Moll Flanders

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 95-105

   7. A Journal of the Plague Year

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 106-117

   8. Colonel Jack

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 118-126

   9. Roxana

      • J. R. Hammond

      Pages 127-135

   10. A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain

       • J. R. Hammond

       Pages 136-143

4. Back Matter

   Pages 144-151

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Defoe occupies a central place in the history of English literature. As the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders he can claim to be the creator of the first novels in English, and he was one of the earliest practitioners of the 'desert island' myth which has had such an influence on the human imagination. In A Journal of the Plague Year and A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain he forged a distinctive documentary style which deeply influenced later writers.

• Defoe
• English literature
• fiction
• Great Britain
• history of literature
• novel
• British and Irish Literature

J.R.HAMMOND

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