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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Map -- Introduction -- Part 1 Form and Function -- Chapter 1 The Identity of Britain -- Chapter 2 Embedding and Embodying the Nation: Textual Practices in the Tour -- Chapter 3 The Epic Strain -- Chapter 4 The Shape of the Nation -- Part 2 Time -- Chapter 5 The Role of the Tour in the Historiography of Early Modern Britain |
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Chapter 6 The Jacobite Rising in the Tour: Preventing the Ruin of Scotland -- Chapter 7 The Impact of the Bubble -- Chapter 8 Local Proverbs and Folk Wisdom -- Part 3 Place -- Chapter 9 The Uses of Topography -- Chapter 10 Road-testing the First Turnpikes: Defoe's Account of English Highways -- Chapter 11 Defoe on Bristol: The Text with an Introduction and Annotation -- Chapter 12 Atlas Maritimus: The Case for Defoe's Authorship -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Places |
| Summary |
Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century writing on Britain |
| Subject |
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain.
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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 fast |
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Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain (Defoe, Daniel) fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009106412 |
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1009106414 |
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9781009116695 |
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100911669X |
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