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Defoe's Politics

Name: Defoe's Politics
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02018861
Price: 56.87 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Manuel Schonhorn
ISBN: 9780521029025

Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'

Manuel Schonhorn

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 02018861

Publishers Cambridge University Press, November 2006

This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical demand to see Defoe as a 'modern' and... Full description

Libristo code: 02018861

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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 them to 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. This model illuminates his original reading of Defoe's greatest political fiction, 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 lifelong political preoccupations concerning society, government and kingship.