Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel

by Michael Prince

A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected for 300 years. By locating Defoe's nemesis and discovering what he represented and how Defoe fought him, Michael Prince's book opens the way to a new account of Defoe's emergence as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813943647
• ISBN13: 9780813943640
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"