The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe by Furbank, P. N. and W. R. Owens - 1988

Yale University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Yale University Press, 1988-02-24. Hardcover. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Remainder mark on bottom edge else Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp. Contains 14 chapters: 1) Doubts about the Defoe 'canon'; 2) Case-study: William Lee and THE HISTORY OF THE WARS OF CHARLES XII; 3) Principles of Author-Attribution; 4) George Chalmers; 5) Walter Wilson; 6) William Lee; 7) James Crossley; 8) W. P. Trent; 9) John Robert Moore; 10) Defore and Prose Style; 11) Defoe as Poet; 12) Defoe as Man; 13) 'Knowing Your Author'; 14) Towards a New Defoe Bibliography. Two appendices: A) Stylometry and Defoe; B) James Crossley's manuscript list of attributions. Notes on unpublished sources. Chapter notes. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "The 'canon' of writing attributed to the great eighteenth-century author Daniel Defoe has… Read More

Yale, 1988. 210pp. Complete dustjacket, a little sun darkened to the edges. A gift inscription to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. An examination of the canon of works attributed to Defoe, the general principles on which anonymous works can be attributed to him and the career and personality of the six main architects of the Defoe Canon leads to inescapable conclusions.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 210p. ; 24cm. Subjects: Defoe, Daniel (ca. 1661-1731) -- Criticism and interpretation. Canon (Literature). Authorship.

Yale University Press, 1988-02-24. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!