ABSTRACT

Penny Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has taught at the University of Hertfordshire since completing her PhD in 2006. Both her doctoral thesis (entitled ‘Defoe, Rhetoric, and Nonconformity’) and MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies were undertaken at the University of East Anglia. Her first book (The Long Eighteenth-Century: Literature from 1660 to 1790) was published by York Press in 2010, and she has written extensively on Defoe and early modern religious writing in academic journals and chapter collections.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|32 pages

The Nonconformist Catch-22

chapter 2|29 pages

‘Our Name Is Legion’

Defoe’s Authorial Personae

chapter 3|37 pages

‘You must go Home, and ask my Father’

Providence, Empiricism, and Print Culture

chapter 4|28 pages

A Cold Ministry and a Careless People

Conduct and Self After 1715

chapter 5|34 pages

Another Island

Robinson Crusoe and Beyond