John Robert Moore

John Robert Moore (1890–1973) was an American biographer and bibliographer of Daniel Defoe.

Life

He was the son of an Episcopalian minister, and was born in Colorado. After a degree at the University of Missouri, he took a Ph.D. at Harvard University with a dissertation on ballads. He was appointed associate professor at the University of Indiana in 1922.[1]

Work on Defoe

In 1930 he became convinced that A General History of the Pyrates was written by Defoe, and announced this finding in 1932.[1] He went on to attribute also Robert Drury's Journal to Defoe alone (going much further than previous bibliographers William Lee who had rejected the idea, Samuel Pasfield Oliver, and William Peterfield Trent). This attribution turned out to be highly controversial.[2] It was criticised by Arthur W. Secord in a 1945 paper.[3][4] In later attacking Moore's work on the Defoe canon as a whole, Rodney Baine picked out the attribution of Robert Drury's Journal as an egregious example.[5]

Works

His works include:

Notes

  1. 1 2 P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens (1988), The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe p. 100.
  2. ↑ The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe p. 109.
  3. ↑ Arthur W. Secord, Defoe and "Robert Drury's Journal", The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jan., 1945), pp. 66-73. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27705179
  4. ↑ The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe p. 111.
  5. ↑ The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe p. 155.
  6. ↑ Budd, F. E. (April 1940). "Review: Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies by John Robert Moore". The Review of English Studies 16 (62): 226–228.
  7. ↑ Andersen, Hans H. (November 1941). "Review: Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies by John Robert Moore". Modern Philology 39 (2): 215–217.

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