Novak, Maximillian E.
Kaplan 204
Tel: 310.825.1975 / E-mail
Education:
D. Phil., St. Johns College, Oxford, 1961
Ph.D., UCLA, 1958
Books:
The Life and Strange surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2019.
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2021.
Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe, 2022.
Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve, 2020
The Writer as Exile: Israel Joshua Singer [with Estelle Novak] 2016.
Transformations in Robinson Crusoe and Defoe’s Other Narratives: Finding the Thing Itself, 2014.
Daniel Defoe Master of Fiction. 2001.
Realism, Myth and History in Defoe’s Fiction. 1983.
Eighteenth Century English Literature. 1983
William Congreve. 1971
Defoe and the Nature of Man. 1963.
Economics and the Fiction of Daniel Defoe. 1962.
Major Editions:
The Robinson Crusoe Trilogy {with Manuel Schonhorn and Irving Rothman], 3 volvs. 2019-2022.
Dryden, Works, vol. X [1970], XIII [with Alan Roper, 1984], part of XVII [1971].
Defoe, The Consolidator [with Kennedy & Seidel] . 2001.
Defoe, Essay upon Projects [with Kennedy & Seidel]1999.
Behn. Oroonoko [with David Rodes]. 1976.
General Editor: Stoke Newington Defoe.
Edited Collections with Introductions:
The Age of Projects. 2003.
Approaches to Robinson Crusoe [with Carl Fischer]. 2005.
Enchanted Ground [with Jayne Lewis]. 2004.
Passionate Encounters [with Anne Mellor]. 2000.
English Literature in the Age of Disguise. 1977.
The Wild Man Within [with Ed Dudley]. 1972.
Interest Areas
• Eighteenth-C. British Literature
• Restoration
• Jewish American Fiction
