Thesiss

The travel narratives of Daniel Defoe are filled with images of heroic English travelers and the natives they encounter. I argue that those natives are portrayed in the texts in terms of the relationship between their agency (as either potential aid or hindrance) and the travele…

Because novels reflect history as well as art, this work seeks to identify the historical origins of gender bias—the categories of Male Law and Female Sacrifice—as they are characterized in Defoe's Roxana (1724), Richardson's Clarissa (1747), and Walpole's The Castle of Otranto …

I examine Daniel Defoe's fictional works through a lens informed by the archive of his published theology, journalism, and political economy to contend that his work recasts the theological notion of sin into an economic model for risk. In chapter one, "The Death of the Body and…