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

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.Schonhorn, Manuel is the author of 'Defoe's Politics Parliament, Power, Kingship and Robinson Crusoe', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521029025 and ISBN 0521029023.