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    An approach to character development in Defoe's narrative prose

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    Author/Creator
    Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-
    Date
    1972
    Type of Work
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    10 pages
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    journal articles
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    Towson University. Department of English
    Citation of Original Publication
    Hahn, H.G. "An approach to character development in Defoe's narrative prose." Philological Quarterly, vol. 51, no. 4, 1972, pp. 845-858. ProQuest, https://proxy-tu.researchport.umd.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/approach-character-development-defoes-narrative/docview/1290875999/se-2.
    Subjects
    Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
    Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Characters
    Abstract
    [From article]: The critical approach to character in Defoe’s narrative prose has been mainly circuitous. By emphasizing genres as external patterns that inform his conception of the individual, interpretation of central character is often sacrificed to analysis of the form assumed to beget the character.[...] And as these forms are significations of random bourgeois interests, the characters within them, the criticism suggests, are all representative of resourceful middle-class Englishmen. Yet summarily to dismiss the characters as middle class is at best middling criticism, however undeniably valuable that criticism may otherwise be in its manifold discoveries.[...] I do not suggest, of course, that an internal approach is the only solution, but conceding the question of genre to the critics to say that Defoe uses features of many forms leaves still the problem of character as character. Looking at that problem, however, in terms of events, actions with which the characters are intimately involved can allow more fruitful answers.


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    Towson University
    8000 York Road
    Towson, Maryland 21252

    Website:
    www.towson.edu

    Contact Info:
    azukowski@towson.edu
    410-704-5318
    http://libraries.towson.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.