Defoe De-Attributions: Critique of J.R.Moore's ChecklistA&C Black, 1. jan. 1994 - 161 strani Daniel Defoe was one of the most important and best-known writers of the eighteenth century but there is a feeling among scholars that the Defoe 'canon' is a remarkably strange and not very satisfactory construction. Between 1790, when the first bibliography of Defoe appeared, and 1971, when J.R. Moore published the second edition of his Checklist, the canon had swollen from just over a hundred items to 570. A large proportion of these attributions had been made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on the basis of features of style, 'favourite phrases' and resemblance to Defoe's known views. This book is a list of all the items in Moore's Checklist (the current authority on the Defoe canon) that at present the authors consider questionable with in each case a note as to who was the first attributer, a brief synopsis and an explanation of the reasons for doubting the ascription. |
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1715 ATTRIBUTION Applebee Applebee's argues argument ascribed ascription attack attribution to Defoe Baker Bangorian controversy Benjamin Hoadly Boyer Britain Canonisation Catalogue Chalmers Charles XII Church of England clergy Crossley Daniel Defoe defence Defoe attribution Defoe canon Defoe wrote Defoe's authorship Dissenters Edinburgh English fact Foe's Gentleman George Aitken Gyllenberg High-Church Hoadly Hoadly's Hutchins internal evidence J.R. Moore Jacobite John John Oldmixon King George Late Lee's Library London Lord Memoirs Mercurius Politicus ministry Moll Flanders Moore's Checklist Novak as Perhaps Novak as Probably Occasional Conformity Parliament peace Perhaps by Defoe piece poem Political present tract Pretender Printed and Sold Probably by Defoe Protestant published Queries reason reference Review Robert Robert Wodrow Sacheverell's satire says Scotland Scottish Secret History seems Snape speech style suggests Defoe title-page Tory Trent Bibliography Trent CHEL Trent Nation Union Vindication Whig Whiggish William Wilson Wodrow writings written