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Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain : Panorama of the Nation, PDF eBook

Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain : Panorama of the Nation PDF

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Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century travel writing.

Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is constantly cited even now by students in practically every branch of history, and there are few topics essential to our understanding of the nation in the early modern period that do not show up in its pages.

Historians since the late nineteenth century have looked to the Tour as one of the richest and most insightful works describing Britain in the lead-up to the Industrial Revolution, and critics and biographers of Defoe have regularly named it as among his most characteristic and central works.

Indispensable for virtually any interdisciplinary approach to the nation in this period, this new study provides wide-reaching, up-to-date analysis of the content of the Tour, and of its methods, sources, form, and vast historical significance.

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