An approach to character development in Defoe's narrative prose

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dc.contributor.authorHahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Englishen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-16T20:36:00Z
dc.date.available2023-02-16T20:36:00Z
dc.date.issued1972
dc.description.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.en_US
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dc.format.extent10 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2jdp0-6rcv
dc.identifier.citationHahn, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0031-7977
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/26823
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Iowaen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhilological Quarterly;volume 51, issue 4
dc.subjectDefoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.en_US
dc.subjectDefoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Charactersen_US
dc.titleAn approach to character development in Defoe's narrative proseen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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