Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Series)
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This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical demand to see Defoe as a modern and to counter misrepresentations of his political writings by restoring their seventeenth-century context. Offering a full examination of Defoe's years as a political reporter and journalist (1689-1715), it recovers his traditional, conservative and anti-Lockean ideas on contemporary issues: the origins of society, the role of the people in the establishment...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521029023
ISBN13:9780521029025
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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