Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 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 Intimations 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 text as a field supporting very nice distinctions
- 6 The frontiers of dishonesty, the addition 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
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 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 Intimations 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 text as a field supporting very nice distinctions
- 6 The frontiers of dishonesty, the addition 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
- Index
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- Crime and DefoeA New Kind of Writing, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993