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... literary context for odern criticism , Backscheider argues e intensity and integrity of Defoe's tistic ambitions , demonstrating that verything he wrote rests solidly upon xtensive reading of books published in ngland , his ...
... literary context for odern criticism , Backscheider argues e intensity and integrity of Defoe's tistic ambitions , demonstrating that verything he wrote rests solidly upon xtensive reading of books published in ngland , his ...
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... literary history . Even his best modern biographer , James Sutherland , described him thus : " For one who was so widely read by his contemporaries he was a strangely isolated figure , both as a man and as a writer , " and so discerning ...
... literary history . Even his best modern biographer , James Sutherland , described him thus : " For one who was so widely read by his contemporaries he was a strangely isolated figure , both as a man and as a writer , " and so discerning ...
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... literary world . Defoe may have been more widely read than any of his literary contemporaries . A comparison of the evidence we have of Defoe's reading to that of , for example , Pope and Swift , suggests , first , that he read for ...
... literary world . Defoe may have been more widely read than any of his literary contemporaries . A comparison of the evidence we have of Defoe's reading to that of , for example , Pope and Swift , suggests , first , that he read for ...
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