TY - CHAP
T1 - Defoe's Foes
T2 - The Author as Character
AU - Cook, Daniel
PY - 2021/6/8
Y1 - 2021/6/8
N2 - The most famous fictional Defoe features in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), in which he conjures Robinson Crusoe out of a memoir by a “true” castaway. Harrumphing across the country alongside the modern-day narrator of Stuart Campbell’s Daniel Defoe’s Railway Journey (2017), a surreal iteration quite literally leaps out of the pages of a Penguin Classics edition of his real-life counterpart’s travel writing. Setting aside a long tradition of neo-Georgian novels in which Defoe cameos as a seventeenth-century spy, a Defoe-as-character only for all intents and purposes, this chapter attends to two complex cases in the genre of author fictions: Coetzee’s Foe and Campbell’s Defoe.
AB - The most famous fictional Defoe features in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), in which he conjures Robinson Crusoe out of a memoir by a “true” castaway. Harrumphing across the country alongside the modern-day narrator of Stuart Campbell’s Daniel Defoe’s Railway Journey (2017), a surreal iteration quite literally leaps out of the pages of a Penguin Classics edition of his real-life counterpart’s travel writing. Setting aside a long tradition of neo-Georgian novels in which Defoe cameos as a seventeenth-century spy, a Defoe-as-character only for all intents and purposes, this chapter attends to two complex cases in the genre of author fictions: Coetzee’s Foe and Campbell’s Defoe.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003000679-3
DO - 10.4324/9781003000679-3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85116948397
SN - 9780367430146
SN - 9781032003894
T3 - Routledge Focus on Literature
SP - 23
EP - 39
BT - Neo-Georgian Fiction
A2 - Lipski, Jakub
A2 - Maciulewicz, Joanna
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -