John Richetti

Biographic Data

ID	1078913
NAME	John Richetti
GIVEN NAMES	John
FAMILY NAME	Richetti
SIGNATURE	RICHETTI J
AFFILIATIONS	California University of Pennsylvania
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	23
TOTAL CITATIONS	7
WORKS AS AUTHOR	19
WORKS AS EDITOR	4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	2

Daniel Defoe in Context
John Richetti, Brian Cowan et al.BOOKDaniel Defoe in Context2023
Defoe, Philosophy, and Religion
John RichettiCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe2023
This chapter considers the philosophical and religious bases of Daniel Defoe’s thought and applies these to an interpretation of the Robinson Crusoe trilogy (1719–20). Although Defoe did not attempt any kind of systematic philosophy, he was interested in the nature of reality, moral relativism, the genesis of knowledge and understanding, and religious doctrine as it shaped the individual’s conduct. The chapter demonstrates that Crusoe is an exper…
Defoe the Writer
Open AccessJohn RichettiCHAPTERDaniel Defoe in Context2023
The life of Daniel Defoe was filled with adventure. His writing took him to many places, geographically, as well as in the form and content of the works he wrote, including verse that got him pilloried, pamphlets that took him to Scotland as a spy, conduct books reflecting his upbringing as a Dissenter, his periodical Review that commented on world events, and, most famously, his novels, which demonstrated his ingenuity, breadth of knowledge, and…
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe
Open AccessJohn J Richetti, John RichettiEDITORBOOKCambridge Companion to 'Robinson…2018
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Women Novelists and the Canon
John RichettiARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2010
Book Review| September 01 2010 Women Novelists and the Canon: Ingrained Misogyny? Brian Corman. Women Novelists before Jane Austen: The Critics and Their Canons (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 2008). Pp. ix + 326. $65 John Richetti John Richetti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email…
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
Open AccessJohn J Richetti, Paula R Backscheider et al.EDITORBOOKThe Cambridge companion to Daniel…2009
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wi…
Writing About Defoe
Open AccessJohn RichettiARTICLELiterature Compass2006Cited by: 2References: 1
This essay considers traditional biographical approaches to literary figures and examines the validity of the connections that literary biography claims to make between life events and an author's writings. Proposing several exemplary instances of critical biographies of Samuel Johnson by Lipking and De Maria that focus instead on an author's writing, the essay compares their approaches to the assumptions that guide two biographies of Daniel Defo…
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780
Open AccessJohn RichettiEDITORBOOKThe Cambridge History of English…2005
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within…
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 16601780 (The New Cambridge History of English Literature)
John RichettiBOOKThe Cambridge History of English…2005
Yes, Miss Burney
Betty Rizzo, Maggie Lane et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature2003
Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
John Richetti, Catherine Ingrassia et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1999
The Cambridge companion to the eighteenth-century novel
John J Richetti, John RichettiEDITORBOOKThe Cambridge companion to the…1996
The contributors challenge and refine the traditional view of the 18th century novel's origins and purposes, showing that the novel is defined primarily by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging world of print culture.
Seductive Forms
John Richetti, Ros BallasterARTICLEThe Yearbook of English Studies1995
Literary Transmission and Authority
Open AccessHoward Erskine-Hill, John Richetti et al.BOOKLiterary Transmission and Authority1993
Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book look…
Robinson Crusoe
John Richetti, Michael SeidelARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1992
Daniel Defoe
David Blewett, D T Blewett et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1989
Practicing Enlightenment
John Richetti, Jerome ChristensenARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1988
Transparent Designs
John Richetti, Michael G KetchamARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1987
Philosophical Writing
Ralph S Pomeroy, John Richetti et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1986
Structures of Experience
John Richetti, Wallace Austin Flanders et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1985
Philosophical Writing
John Richetti, John J RichettiBOOKPhilosophical Writing1983Cited by: 5
Defoe's Art of Fiction
John Richetti, David BlewettARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1982
Popular Fiction Before Richardson
Leon Guilhamet, Leon M Guilhamet et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1971
The rise of the novel reconsidered rogues and whores - heroes and anti-heroes travellers, priates and pilgrims - the pirate, Faustian ruffian, Crusoe and after long as Atalantis shall be read - the scandal chronicles of Mrs Manley and Mrs Haywood Mrs haywood and the Novella - the erotic and the pathetic the novel as pious polemic - Mrs Aubin and Mrs Barker, Mrs Elizabeth Rowe the relevance of the unreadable

Popular Fiction Before Richardson
Leon Guilhamet, Leon M Guilhamet et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1971
The rise of the novel reconsidered rogues and whores - heroes and anti-heroes travellers, priates and pilgrims - the pirate, Faustian ruffian, Crusoe and after long as Atalantis shall be read - the scandal chronicles of Mrs Manley and Mrs Haywood Mrs haywood and the Novella - the erotic and the pathetic the novel as pious polemic - Mrs Aubin and Mrs Barker, Mrs Elizabeth Rowe the relevance of the unreadable
Defoe's Art of Fiction
John Richetti, David BlewettARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1982
Philosophical Writing
John Richetti, John J RichettiBOOKPhilosophical Writing1983Cited by: 5
Structures of Experience
John Richetti, Wallace Austin Flanders et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1985
Philosophical Writing
Ralph S Pomeroy, John Richetti et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1986
Transparent Designs
John Richetti, Michael G KetchamARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1987
Practicing Enlightenment
John Richetti, Jerome ChristensenARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1988
Daniel Defoe
David Blewett, D T Blewett et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1989
Robinson Crusoe
John Richetti, Michael SeidelARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1992
Literary Transmission and Authority
Open AccessHoward Erskine-Hill, John Richetti et al.BOOKLiterary Transmission and Authority1993
Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book look…
Seductive Forms
John Richetti, Ros BallasterARTICLEThe Yearbook of English Studies1995
The Cambridge companion to the eighteenth-century novel
John J Richetti, John RichettiEDITORBOOKThe Cambridge companion to the…1996
The contributors challenge and refine the traditional view of the 18th century novel's origins and purposes, showing that the novel is defined primarily by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging world of print culture.
Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
John Richetti, Catherine Ingrassia et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1999
Yes, Miss Burney
Betty Rizzo, Maggie Lane et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature2003
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780
Open AccessJohn RichettiEDITORBOOKThe Cambridge History of English…2005
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within…
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 16601780 (The New Cambridge History of English Literature)
John RichettiBOOKThe Cambridge History of English…2005
Writing About Defoe
Open AccessJohn RichettiARTICLELiterature Compass2006Cited by: 2References: 1
This essay considers traditional biographical approaches to literary figures and examines the validity of the connections that literary biography claims to make between life events and an author's writings. Proposing several exemplary instances of critical biographies of Samuel Johnson by Lipking and De Maria that focus instead on an author's writing, the essay compares their approaches to the assumptions that guide two biographies of Daniel Defo…
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
Open AccessJohn J Richetti, Paula R Backscheider et al.EDITORBOOKThe Cambridge companion to Daniel…2009
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wi…
Women Novelists and the Canon
John RichettiARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2010
Book Review| September 01 2010 Women Novelists and the Canon: Ingrained Misogyny? Brian Corman. Women Novelists before Jane Austen: The Critics and Their Canons (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 2008). Pp. ix + 326. $65 John Richetti John Richetti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email…
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe
Open AccessJohn J Richetti, John RichettiEDITORBOOKCambridge Companion to 'Robinson…2018
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics
Daniel Defoe in Context
John Richetti, Brian Cowan et al.BOOKDaniel Defoe in Context2023
Defoe, Philosophy, and Religion
John RichettiCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe2023
This chapter considers the philosophical and religious bases of Daniel Defoe’s thought and applies these to an interpretation of the Robinson Crusoe trilogy (1719–20). Although Defoe did not attempt any kind of systematic philosophy, he was interested in the nature of reality, moral relativism, the genesis of knowledge and understanding, and religious doctrine as it shaped the individual’s conduct. The chapter demonstrates that Crusoe is an exper…
Defoe the Writer
Open AccessJohn RichettiCHAPTERDaniel Defoe in Context2023
The life of Daniel Defoe was filled with adventure. His writing took him to many places, geographically, as well as in the form and content of the works he wrote, including verse that got him pilloried, pamphlets that took him to Scotland as a spy, conduct books reflecting his upbringing as a Dissenter, his periodical Review that commented on world events, and, most famously, his novels, which demonstrated his ingenuity, breadth of knowledge, and…