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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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Tagged Abbe Prevost, Daniel Craig, Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders, George Bickham, Godolphin, Gulliver's Travels, Jacobite Rebellion 1715, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift, Lord Townshend Secretary of State, Moll Flanders, Pauline Hannah, Robert Harley, Robinson Crusoe, Roxana Daniel Defoe, Tessa Sanderson, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake
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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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Tagged Bernardino Parenzano, Daniel Defoe, George Cruikshank, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe, Thomas Rowlandson, Tory Minister Harley, William Heath, William Hogarth, www.visionofbritain.org.uk
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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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Tagged Ashley Marshall, Daniel Defoe, Georgian England, James Charles Armytage, Jonathan Swift, King William England, Moll Flanders, Noel Harrison, Robinson Crusoe, William Blake, William Hogarth, www.tate.org.uk
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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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