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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED

The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading

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MARRIED TO TEMPTATION

”Marriage without love, is the Compleatest Misery in life. Besides, I must say, it is to me utterly unlawful, and entails a Curse upon the persons, as being wilfully perjured, invoking the Name of GOD to a falsehood, which is … Continue reading

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ALL ARE ROGUES NONE ARE FOOLS

”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

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

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

”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

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