The Cambridge companion to Daniel Defoe edited by John Richetti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defoe : the man in the works / Paula Backscheider -- Defoe's political and religious journalism / Maximillian Novak -- Defoe, commerce, and empire / Srinivas Aravamudan -- Defoe and criminal fiction / Hal Gladfelder -- Money and character in Defoe's fiction / Deidre Lynch -- Defoe's tour and the identity of Britain / Pat Rogers -- Defoe as narrative innovator / John Richetti -- Gender and fiction in Moll Flanders and Roxana / Ellen Pollak -- Defoe and London / Cynthia Wall -- Robinson Crusoe and the varieties of fictional experience / Michael Seidel -- Defoe : satirist and moralist / John McVeagh -- Defoe and poetic tradition / J. Paul Hunter.