Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'

by Manuel Schonhorn

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521384524
• ISBN13: 9780521384520
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"