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Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Daniel Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive overview available of his life, times, writings, and reception. Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Defoe's Life and Times -- Part I: Genres -- 2. Defoe's Poetry -- 3. Defoe, Prose Fiction, and the Novel -- 4. Defoe and Drama -- 5. Dialogue and Didacticism: Defoe's Conduct and Advice Literature -- 6. The Great Polemicist: Defoe's Pamphlets and Tracts -- 7. Defoe's Periodical Journalism -- 8. Defoe and the Idea of Travel -- 9. Defoe as Historian -- 10. The Style of Defoe's Correspondence -- 11. Defoe and Satire -- Part II: Contexts -- 12. Defoe and the Book Trade -- 13. Daniel Defoe and the Social Structure of Pre-Industrial England -- 14. Defoe and Economics: Industry, Trade, and Finance -- 15. Gender, Sexuality, and the Status of Women in Defoe's Writings -- 16. Family and Domesticity in Defoe's Writings -- 17. Defoe and Christianity -- 18. Defoe, Philosophy, and Religion -- 19. Defoe, Science, and Technology -- 20. Defoe and Government: Propaganda and Principle -- 21. Intelligence, Espionage, and the Ethics of Surveillance in Defoe's Writings -- 22. Defoe and War -- 23. Crime and the Law in Defoe's Works -- 24. Racial and National Identities in Defoe's Writings -- 25. Defoe and Ecology -- Part III: Places -- 26. Defoe and London -- 27. Defoe and Britain -- 28. Defoe's Europe: Allies and Enemies -- 29. Defoe and Colonialism -- 30. Defoe and the Pacific -- 31. Africa and the Levant in Defoe's Writings -- Part IV: Afterlives -- 32. The Celebrated Daniel De Foe: Publication History, 1731-1945 -- 33. Defoe's Critical Reception, 1731-1945 -- 34. Attribution and the Defoe Canon -- 35. Habits of Gender and Genre in Three Female Robinsonades, 1767-1985 -- 36. Defoe on Screen: Robinson Crusoe, The Red Turtle, and Animal Rights -- Index.
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