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Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe' (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Book

This study challenges the critical demand to see Defoe as a 'modern' and counters misrepresentations of his political writings by restoring their seventeenth-century context. Offering a full contextual examination of Defoe's years as a political journalist (1689-1715), it recovers his traditional, conservative and anti-Lockean ideas on the origins of society, the role of the people in the establishment of a political society and the monarchy.Read More

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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 of a political society and how monarchies are created and maintained as the means of achieving a beneficent political order. At the heart of Defoe's political imagination, Manuel Schonhorn finds the vision of a warrior-king, derived from sources in the Bible, and in ancient and English history. The model illuminates his original reading of Robinson Crusoe, which emerges less in terms of a family romance, a tract for the rising bourgeoisie or a Lockean parable of government, than as a dramatic re-enactment of Defoe's life-long political preoccupations concerning society, government and kingship.

  • 0521384524
  • 9780521384520
  • Manuel Schonhorn
  • 29 March 1991
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 192
  • Digitally Printed 1st Pbk. Version
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