Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing

ISBN: 9780521060332 出版年：1993 页码：285 Faller Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Romancing the real: the field of criminal biography 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it 4. Imitations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged and kept in play by strange concurrences 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the texts as a field supporting very nice distinctions 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the additions and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self, and the symbolic order Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense and empty spaces.