Daniel Defoe

Chapter 1 1. Contemporary comments on Defoe; Chapter 2 2. Pope, Swift and the Scriblerians on Defoe; Chapter 3 3. A satire on Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 4 4. A biographic entry; Chapter 5 5. The mid-century view; Chapter 6 6. Rousseau on Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 7 7. The close of the century; Chapter 8 8. Dr Johnson on Defoe; Chapter 9 9. James Beattie on the ânew romanceâ; Chapter 10 10. Hugh Blair on Defoe; Chapter 11 11. The beginnings of serious study; Chapter 12 12. Scott on Defoeâs life and works; Chapter 13 13. Coleridge on Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 14 14. Charles Lamb on The Complete English Tradesman and the âsecondaryâ novels; Chapter 15 15. Carlyle on Homer, Richardson and Defoe; Chapter 16 16. A major study; Chapter 17 17. Hazlitt on Defoe; Chapter 18 18. Two reviews of Wilsonâs Memoirs; Chapter 19 19. Wordsworth on Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 20 20. Two verse tributes by W. S. Landor; Chapter 21 21. De Quincey on verisimilitude; Chapter 22 22. John Forster on the Review and other matters; Chapter 23 23. George Borrow discovers Crusoe; Chapter 24 24. The novelist assessed; Chapter 25 25. The climate of the fifties; Chapter 26 26. Taine on Defoe; Chapter 27 27. Karl Marx on Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 28 28. Leslie Stephen on Defoe; Chapter 29 29. The biographerâs view; Chapter 30 30. The legacy of Defoe; Chapter 31 31. Victorian orthodoxy: style and narrative method; Chapter 32 32. The Edinburgh Review on Defoe; Chapter 33 33. The supremacy of Crusoe; Chapter 34 34. William Minto on Defoe;