From Summer 1980 Explore This Issue on Defoe and Fictional Time by Paul K. Alkon; & The World of Defoe by Peter Earle By Paula R. Backscheider From the Summer 1980 Issue ← Seeing Laughter Steadily and Whole (on Comedy High & Low: An Introduction to the Experience of Comedy by Maurice Charney; & The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel by Ronald Wallace) → on Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography by Brian Finney; & Isherwood: A Biography by Jonathan Fryer