Colonel Jack's "Thieving Roguing" Trade to Mexico and Defoe's Attack on Economic Individualism

Novak, Maximillian E.

doi:10.2307/3816131

“…Novak has argued that Jack's activities need to be read as a sign of Defoe's sense that legitimate trade networks should have been respected and that "economic individualism" was a destructive force. 63 This reading casts Jack's final ascen dancy as a kind of failure and thus a problematic turn in the narrative's formal design. Such a view comports well with Defoe's earlier harsh indictment of the illicit trade in the Mercator in 1714.…”

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Episodic or Novelistic?: Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack

Cervantes¹

2011

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nineteenth-and twentieth-century conceptions of the novel have been retrospectively projected onto earlier, incipient fields of fictional writing.1 In English, this projection has been especially apparent in studies of early eighteenth-century literature where the term "novel" has long been used with little concern over historical accuracy. Using the example of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (first published in 1724), recent studies by Nicholas Seager and Mary Poovey have shown such processes of reinterpretation were already at work by 1740 when the model of domestic fiction absorbed earlier works and the continuum between fact and fiction began to break apart.2 These realizations are crucial, but, as I

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“…63 This reading casts Jack's final ascen dancy as a kind of failure and thus a problematic turn in the narrative's formal design. Such a view comports well with Defoe's earlier harsh indictment of the illicit trade in the Mercator in 1714.…”

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Episodic or Novelistic? Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack

Cervantes¹

2011

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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nineteenth-and twentieth-century conceptions of the novel have been retrospectively projected onto earlier, incipient fields of fictional writing.1 In English, this projection has been especially apparent in studies of early eighteenth-century literature where the term "novel" has long been used with little concern over historical accuracy. Using the example of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (first published in 1724), recent studies by Nicholas Seager and Mary Poovey have shown such processes of reinterpretation were already at work by 1740 when the model of domestic fiction absorbed earlier works and the continuum between fact and fiction began to break apart.2 These realizations are crucial, but, as I

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Commerce and Conflict: Jamaica and the War of the Spanish Succession

Zahedieh¹

2015

The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy

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Colonel Jack's "Thieving Roguing" Trade to Mexico and Defoe's Attack on Economic Individualism

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Episodic or Novelistic?: Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack

Episodic or Novelistic?: Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack

Episodic or Novelistic? Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack

Commerce and Conflict: Jamaica and the War of the Spanish Succession

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