Maximillian E Novak

Biographic Data

ID974076
NAMEMaximillian E Novak
GIVEN NAMESMaximillian E
FAMILY NAMENovak
SIGNATURENOVAK M E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Defoe's First Novel and the Critique of Fictional Narrative

    Maximillian E NovakARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies2025

    Abel Boyer's attack on Defoe for the authorship of Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager has tended to obscure Defoe's attempt to create a political novel out of the few pieces of information that were available. Mesnager was one of the French diplomats chosen to negotiate the Treaty of Utrecht that ended England's role in the War of the Spanish Succession. Defoe involved him in an attempt to convince English politicians, including Queen…

  • Defoe’s Poetry

    Maximillian E NovakCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe2023

    At a time of a wide appreciation of political poetry, Daniel Defoe produced a number of excellent political poems. At his best Defoe was able to infuse his arguments with the indignation and power of an Andrew Marvell. And on occasions he was able to reveal some of the cleverness that marked the verse of John Dryden. He was a star of the many volumed anthology Poems on Affairs of State (1716), but his reputation as poet suffered from both the cha…

  • Daniel Defoe in Context

    John Richetti, Brian Cowan et al.BOOKDaniel Defoe in Context2023

  • Daniel Defoe and Applebee's Original Weekly Journal

    Maximillian E Novak, Maximillian NovakARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies2012

    William Lee's argument that between 25 June 1720 and 14 May 1726, Defoe was the main contributor to The Original Weekly Journal (later titled Applebee's Original Weekly Journal ) was an accepted fact by every Defoe scholar until, in 1997, P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens published an essay with the title, "The Myth of Defoe as Applebee's Man," in which they questioned Lee's ascription, arguing that any connection between Applebee's Original Weekly J…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe

    Open AccessJohn J Richetti, Paula R Backscheider et al.BOOKThe 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…

  • The Age of Projects

    Maximillian E NovakBOOKAge of Projects2008

    The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during the late seventeenth century

  • Enchanted Ground

    Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Jayne Lewis et al.BOOKEnchanted Ground2004

    For Enchanted Ground , Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak have brought together many of the world's experts on Dryden, and their essays reflect a range of new, uniquely twenty-first-century views of him

  • Daniel Defoe

    Maximillian E NovakBOOKDaniel Defoe: Master of Fictions2003

    Daniel Defoe, best known as the author of Robinson Crusoe, lived during a period of dramatic historical, political, and social change in Britain, and was by any standard a superb observer of his times. Through his pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction he commented on anything and everything, from birth control to the price of coal, from flying machines to academies for women, from security for the aged to the dangers of the…

  • Drama, 1660-1740

    Open AccessMaximillian E NovakCHAPTERThe Cambridge History of Literary…1997

    In general, during this period of the drama, critical theory moved from a formal analysis of dramatic structure based on what critics thought to be rationalist principles to an affective theory in which the feelingful response of the audience was the crucial test of a play. In short, it changed from the prescriptive theories of François Hédelin, Abbé D'Aubignac, to those of the Abbé Du Bos with their rejection of mechanical principles of taste. T…

  • The Works of John Dryden. Volume XIII. Plays

    Derek Hughes, Maximillian E Novak et al.ARTICLEThe Yearbook of English Studies1989

  • The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe

    Maximillian E Novak, P N Furbank et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1989Cited by: 8

    An account of the extraordinary way in which the Defoe 'canon' was assembled, and its mushroom growth from about 100 items at the end of the eighteenth century to over 570 items by the middle of the twentieth century. Argues that this 'canon' has been constructed on faulty principles of attribution, and that no satisfactory evidence has ever been presented for many of them

  • A Mirror Up to Nature

    Maximillian E Novak, Rose ZimbardoARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1988

  • Realism, Myth, and History in Defoe's Fiction

    Leopold Damrosch, Maximillian E NovakARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1986

  • Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry

    Maximillian E Novak, Steven N ZwickerARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1986

    This study of Dryden's poetic career addresses the nature of covert argument in an age of violently contested political and religious issues.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while present…

  • The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 13: Plays; All for Love; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida

    John Dryden, Richard Duke et al.BOOKWorks of John Dryden.1985

    "The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 13: Plays; All for Love; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida" published on by University of California Press.

  • Realism, Myth, and History in Defoe's Fiction

    T K Meier, Thomas Meier et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1985

  • Defoe and the Uses of Narrative

    John J Burke, Michael M Boardman et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1984

  • Defoe and Fictional Time

    Maximillian E Novak, Paul K AlkonARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1980

    and Fictional Time shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and above all the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading. Paul K. Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction, with glances at Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and second a theoretical discussion of ti…

  • English Literature in the Age of Disguise

    Patricia Meyer Spacks, Maximillian E NovakARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1979

  • The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century

    Maximillian E Novak, Robert D HumeARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1977Cited by: 3

  • The Wild Man Within

    Edward Dudley, Maximillian E NovakBOOKWild Man Within1972

  • Wild Man Within

    Edward Dudley, Maximillian E NovakBOOKWild Man Within1972

  • The Works of John Dryden. Vol. X

    Eric Rothstein, Maximillian E Novak et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1972

  • William Congreve

    Robert D Hume, Maximillian E NovakARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1972

  • The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 10

    John Dryden, Maximillian E Novak et al.BOOKThe Works of John Dryden, Vol.…1970

    "The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 10: Plays; The Tempest; Tyrannick Love; An Evening's Love" published on by University of California Press.