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From: The Spectator
Date: 20070105
Author:Raphael, Frederic
THE BISEXUALITY OF DANIEL DEFOE by Leo Abse Karnac Books, £19.99, pp. 308, ISBN 1855754568
The classical scholar T. P. Wiseman decided that, once he had passed his 42nd birthday, his middleaged hands were no longer apt for writing about the erotic Catullus. In his 90th year, Leo Abse manifests no such squeamishness in this psychoanalytic study of Daniel Defoe. Neither embarrassed nor embarrassing, he sees no reason to abate his hot pursuit of the more or less hidden impulses that, he argues, enabled Defoe to impersonate both Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders with such instant insolence.
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