A Contrast Of Deofoe'S Moll Flanders And Colonel Jack, With Emphasis On The Thematic Substance And Thematic Unity Of Each.

Author

William Burchard Cogswell

Publication Date

7-18-1969

Abstract

Ian Watt, in his The Rise of the Novel, has stated that, as a writer of fictions, “[Daniel] Defoe created his own personal genre, which stands wholly alone in the history of literature ….” He has assigned Defoe this distinction, it seems, to preserve for Defoe some stature in the history of the novel, for the primary aim of his discussion of Defoe’s art is to show that Defoe did not succeed in writing a novel as the genre is now defined. He has based his conclusion on this “presumption”: that “we place Defoe’s novels in a very different context from that of their own time; we take novels much more seriously now, and we judge his by the more exacting literary standards of today”.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

James Llewellyn Thorson

Second Committee Member

Paul Benjamin Davis

Third Committee Member

Mary Jane Power

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Recommended Citation

Cogswell, William Burchard. "A Contrast Of Deofoe'S Moll Flanders And Colonel Jack, With Emphasis On The Thematic Substance And Thematic Unity Of Each.." (1969). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/411