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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.Schonhorn, Manuel is the author of 'Defoe's Politics Parliament, Power, Kingship, and Robinson Crusoe' with ISBN 9780521384520 and ISBN 0521384524.
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