Tag Archives: Moll Flanders

TOTAL RECALL:HAUNTED BY REJECTION

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Dave

”First, the bedpost notches: let’s get them out of the way. In his History of My Life. Casanova records sexual experiences with well over a hundred women – 122 to 136, depending on how one computes certain group and semi-consummated … Continue reading →

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ALL ARE ROGUES NONE ARE FOOLS

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Dave

”Defoe’s political writing seems to have come to an end when, in 1718, he was discovered to be writing for both the Tory “Weekly Journal or Secondary Post” and the Whig “Whitehall Evening Post”. So, when he was nearly sixty, … Continue reading →

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MONSTERS FROM THE DREAM OF REASON

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Dave

After his release from prison in November, 1703, for his satiric and incendiary pamphlet, ” The Shortest Way With the Dissenters”, Danel Defoe became a government spy, the tool of the people who had him freed, mistrusted and hated where … Continue reading →

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The SHORT CUT WAY WITH DISSENTERS

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Dave

Call it the short arm of the law and the long and winding road of dissent. Daniel Defoe’s bankruptcy at the age of thirty-two was the making of him. Always a plunger, he had plunged into the wrong element. He … Continue reading →

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A RASCAL'S CONSCIENCE BEING SOMEWHAT ELASTIC

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Dave

”Defoe is often enough a comic and satirical writer, who balances his enthusiasm for certain kinds of honest projection with a sense of the prevailing dangers of fraud that feeds on modern greed and dreams of instant riches peculiar to … Continue reading →