Works of Daniel Defoe
General Editors: W R Owens and P N Furbank
Daniel Defoe is now mainly thought of as a novelist - the author of such famous works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders - but this is not how his contemporaries regarded him. His reputation in his lifetime was as a poet, a journalist, and a polemical writer on political, economic and social affairs. The quantity and range of his writings is unparalleled in English Literature, and few writers have made such a lasting impact in so many literary genres.
This is the most comprehensive collection of the writings of this extraordinary man ever attempted. Grouped under five thematic headings, it aims, in 44 volumes, to give as extensive a representation as possible of Defoe’s work in all the literary genres to which he contributed.
Editorial board
W R Owens is Professor of English Literature at The Open University. His publications include editions of John Bunyan's Grace Abounding (1987), The Pilgrim's Progress (2003) and two volumes in the Clarendon Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan (1994). A founder editor of the journal Bunyan Studies, he is also co-editor of John Bunyan and his England 1628-88 (1990), Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon (1996), and A Handbook to Literary Research (1998)
P N Furbank is Emeritus Professor of Literature at The Open University. He is the author of studies of Samuel Butler and Italo Svevo, and is the biographer of E M Forster and Diderot. His other books include Reflections on the Word 'Image' (1970), Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class (1985), and Behalf (1999)
Together W R Owens and P N Furbank have written over twenty articles on Defoe, and have compiled computer-generated concordances to Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Their joint books include The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe (1988), Defoe De-Attributions (1994), and A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (1998). They have also edited Defoe's Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1991), and The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings (1997).
Reviews
'[This] series promises to be the most authoritative and extensive publishing of Defoe's writings ever...[it[ will be a vital and vitalising addition to any institution serious about the study of Defoe and the eighteenth century.'
– Stephen H Gregg, English
'Pickering & Chatto has finally made Defoe's works easily available, and the benefits are already discernible in the increase in excellent criticism on texts previously available primarily on microfilm.'
– Paula Backsheider, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Published titles
- Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part I
- Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II
- The Novels of Daniel Defoe Part II
- The Novels of Daniel Defoe, Part I
- The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe
- Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe Part II
- Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe, Part I
- Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I
- Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part II
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