Academic literature on the topic 'Criticism and interpretationdefoe, daniel , 1661?-1731'

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Como é possível o mesmo autor, na mesma época, escrever dois romances com a mesma temática e dar-lhes tratamento tão distinto? Essa é a pergunta que intriga os leitores de Defoe ao ler duas das suas principais obras literárias, Moll Flanders (1722) e Roxana (1724), e é também a pergunta que norteou esta pesquisa. Para responder a isso, estudamos a história da leitura, o surgimento e a popularização do romance, a história dos direitos autorais e a influência do público leitor na produção de romances. Isso porque ambas as obras de Defoe tiveram várias edições ao longo do séc. XVIII que se diferenciavam das primeiras tiragens. Visando estabelecer algumas hipóteses para explicar os motivos que levaram os editores a alterar os finais das obras, foram analisadas, nesses romances, as figuras da prostituta, amante, esposa e mãe e a condição da mulher na Inglaterra pré-Revolução Industrial, sem perder de vista a questão da edição e da recepção
Abstract: To what extent is it possible that an author over the same decade had written two novels about the same central theme, but from and with different perspectives? The readers of Daniel Defoe are right to raise this issue after reading Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana (1724). This research sets about answering such questions. To this end, I used Defoe's novels to take a close look at the history of reading, the creation and popularity of the novel, copyright implications and the influence of the reader in the production of novels. After all, both novels underwent a series of different editions throughout the eighteenth century. To formulate a working hypothesis to outline the reasons that allowed such changes in editions, I analyzed the figures of the prostitute, lover, wife and mother and the condition of women in pre-Industrial Revolution England in both novels
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This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded to the generation and regulation of economic, political, and social progress brought about by developing capitalism.

The the'3is examines the role of gender in the construction of Robinson Crusoe and later rewritings in the early eighteenth and late twentieth centuries, which feature female protagonists. Analysing the gendered construction of Robinson Crusoe is important because of its representation in literary criticism as iconic text of rational individualism and colonialism, and in economic discourse as exemplar of rational economic man. The tendency of feminist and psychoanalytic theory is to present such modern subjectivity as inherently masculine. My reading examines ways in which the 'feminine', given varying and similar attributes in the quite different texts I examine, forms the basis of the construction, and later deconstruction, of Robinson Crusoe. In both periods, the castaway narrative performs a social critique in which certain 'feminine' values are represented as castaway and then form the basis of a 'rescue'. The title of the thesis emphasises that Robinson Crusoe was based on 'feminine' values, understood as 'the female goddesses of disorder', luxury and credit. In this period, these values which were associated with instability and artifice, were revalued and associated with social mobility and transformation. Such revaluing of the 'feminine' occurred at the same time as the rise of the novel and early arguments in favour of women's access to education. I use Defoe's conduct book, The Complete English Tradesman to show that Robinson Crusoe uses sexual difference, racial and cultural hybridity, and artifice to establish the authority and authenticity of the socially mobile tradesman. The female castaway narratives in both periods, draw on as well as critique Robinson Crusoe to establish authority for similarly marginalised positions. In both periods, Robinson Crusoe and the female castaway narratives link writing, subjectivity and materiality in response to a crisis of representation. In these quite different periods, the 'feminine' is given similar attributes and established as a valuable ground of transformation and authority.