Daniel Defoe (MCV) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Harold Bloom suggests that one of Daniel Defoe's novelistic virtues is that the puzzles of daily moral choice are omnipresent. This volume gathers some of the best modern criticism of Defoe, including his Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. This title, Daniel Defoe, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Daniel Defoe through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Daniel Defoe, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.