Synopsis Daniel Defoe (b. 1990) is a renowned novelist in English. This book on Defoe contains ten articles, x-raying his literary genius. T he topics included herein are-Daniel Defoe: An Overview; Defoe and the Art of War; A Sermon by the “Queen of Whores”; Modern Panegyrick and Defoe’s Dunciad: Robinson Crusoe as Narrative Theologian; Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel and Robinson Crusoe; Commercial Paper, Commerical Fiction: “The Compleat English Tradesman’ and Defoe’s Reluctant Novels; Inevitable Politics: Rulership and Identity in Robinson Crusoe; Arguments to the Self in Defoe’s ‘Roxana’; Reading and Righting Moll Flanders; etc. This book will prove informative and useful for the teachers and students.