Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R.
(1997).
Whence the Defoe Canon?
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9(2),
pp. 223–225.
Abstract
A rejoinder to an attack on the work on the Defoe canon of P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens, by Maximillian E. Novak ('Whither the Defoe Canon?', in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, October 1986). Argues that Novak's central principle of attribution -- that 'what reads like Defoe stylistically and contains some of Defoe's often quite unusual ideas is probably by Defoe' -- is a hopeless basis for the construction of an authorial canon.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
1997 McMaster University |
| ISSN: |
0840-6286 |
| Keywords: |
English literature |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
21582 |
| Depositing User: |
Jean Fone
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| Date Deposited: |
20 Jul 2010 08:14 |
| Last Modified: |
05 May 2011 14:48 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21582 |
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