Product Description: Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion. This series is the first complete scholarly edition of the entire run of Defoe's Review...read more

Product Description: Defoe's era saw much popular interest in the instructional handbook and behaviour manual. Bringing together a collection of Daniel Defoe's most important and influential instructional treatises, this work serves as an addition to the "Works of Daniel Defoe" from the "Pickering Masters" series...read more

Product Description: One of Daniel Defoe's greatest achievements was the writing and publication of his "Review". Covering his many interests, both contemporary and historical, Defoe published his journal twice and latterly three times a week. This volume reproduces the "Review" from the year 1704.

Product Description: This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings reveal the range of his intellectual interests. His "Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain", which came out between 1724 and 1726, drew on Defoe's travels throughout England and Scotland - often as a political agent and spy...read more

This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings reveal the range of his intellectual interests. His "Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain", which came out between 1724 and 1726, drew on Defoe's travels throughout England and Scotland - often as a political agent and spy.

Product Description: This collection gathers together a number of Daniel Defoe's non-fiction writings on political and economic issues. The selection is designed to reflect the numerous facets of Defoe's economic and political thought. Each of the eight volumes includes an introduction.

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Product Description: This guide-the first ever attempt to provide a comprehensive reference book on Irish travel literature-marks a fascinating opportunity to explore previously unavailable information on a rich and diverse area.The author's extensive research covers all aspects of Irish travel over the last eight centuries; entries range from simple descriptions of journeys through Irish towns and countryside, written for the information of others, through private writings such as Mary Granville's seventeenth century account of a trip to Galway...read more

Product Description: This interesting study explores the literary reflection of Britain's changing attitudes to the wider world between the Restoration and the American War of Independence.The contributors assesses the impact upon literary genres of this awareness of real and imagined travel, and of travel literature...read more