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  title info:
    title: Defoe's America
  name:
    name part: Todd, Dennis
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 229 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "The Americas appear as an evocative setting in more than half of Daniel Defoe's novels, and often offer a new beginning for his characters. In the first full-length study of Defoe and colonialism, Dennis Todd explores why the New World loomed so large in Defoe's imagination. By focusing on the historical contexts that informed Defoe's depiction of American Indians, African slaves, and white indentured servants, Dennis Todd investigates the colonial assumptions that shaped his novels and, at the same time, uncovers how Defoe used details of the American experience in complex, often figurative ways to explore the psychological bases of the profound conversions and transformations that his heroes and heroines undergo. And by examining what Defoe knew and did not know about America, what he falsely believed and what he knowingly falsified, Defoe's America probes the doubts, hesitancies, and contradictions he had about the colonial project he so fervently promoted"--
  table of contents: Defoe's America -- Mastering the savage: conversion in Robinson Crusoe -- Servitude and self-transformation in Colonel Jack -- Moll Flanders and the misrepresentation of servitude -- Conclusion: Defoe, cannibals, and colonialism.
  note: Dennis Todd.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Defoe, Daniel
      name part: 1661?-1731
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American, in literature
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism in literature
  classification: PR3407 .T56 2010
  classification: 823/.5
  identifier: 9780521195812
  identifier: 0521195810
  identifier: 2010022106
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100525
    record change date: 20151202092743.0
    record identifier: in00002676784