The Life of Daniel Defoe.(Book review)

The Modern Language Review | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

The Life of Daniel Defoe. By JOHN RICHETTI. Malden: Blackwell. 2005. xi + 486 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-631-19529-0.

Writing a biography of Daniel Defoe is a doomed quest: yet John Richetti takes up the challenge and comes out with flying colours. In his preface to this volume he honestly admits at the outset that 'almost nothing is known or certain about [Defoe's] inner life except what he chose to reveal about himself in his writing and in his surviving letters' (p. vi); and he cannot but go on to remark: 'However, the question of what Defoe actually ...

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