This book on Defoe contains ten articles, x-raying his literary genius. The 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 Cursoe; Commercial Paper, Commercial Fiction. "The Complete English Tradesman' and Defoe's Relucatant Novels; Inevitable Politics: Rulership and Identity in Robinson Crusoe; Arguments to the Self in Defoe's Roxana; Reading and Righting Moll Flanders; etc.