Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion.
2. Daniel Defoe''s Supernatural Tracts and Contemporary Supernaturalism: Problems of Language and Evidence Kein Zugriff Seiten 35 - 68
3. Defoe''s Play with the "As If": Fiction, Delusion and Imagination Kein Zugriff Seiten 69 - 106
4. Describing Emotional Conflict and Continuity in Defoe''s Narratives Journal of the Plague Year, Robinson Crusoe and Roxana Kein Zugriff Seiten 107 - 130
5. Frames of Knowledge in Daniel Defoe''s Story-Telling Kein Zugriff Seiten 131 - 172
