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

Manuel Schonhorn (Author)

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought | Publication Date: March 29, 1991

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.

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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.

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Digitally Printed 1st Pbk. Version edition (March 29, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521384524
ISBN-13: 978-0521384520
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
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On 11 June 1685, James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, landed on England's west country shore proclaiming liberty and inveighing against the arbitrary rule of his uncle, King James II, who had ascended the throne scarcely four months earlier. Read the first page

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Robinson Crusoe, King William, Daniel Defoe, Cambridge University Press, Queen Anne, King James, New York, Two Treatises, First Book of Samuel, Church of England, Old Testament, Queen Mary, Robert Harley, Sermon Preach, Great Britain, Kegan Paul, Oxford University Press, Somers Tracts, Essay Upon Projects, Frank Bastian, Professor Kenyon, Tory Jacobite, Duke of Monmouth, Edmund Ludlow, Henry Parker

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Two Treatises of Government by John Locke on 9 pages
The True-Born Englishman & Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe on 9 pages
Essay Upon Projects by Daniel Defoe on 7 pages
An Essay Upon Projects (Dodo Press) by Daniel Defoe on 7 pages
Discourses Concerning Government (Liberty Fund Studies in Political Theory) by Algernon Sidney on 5 pages

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