Defoe's Politics
Subtitle: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe' (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780521029025
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Defoe, Daniel, --1661?-1731--Political and so; Defoe, Daniel,--1661?-1731--Political and social views; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 1660-1714; 18th century; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Political fiction, English; Politics and government; Politics and literature
First sentence: On 11 June 1685, James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, landed on England's west country shore proclaiming liberty and inveighing against the arbitrary rule of his uncle, King James II, who had ascended the throne scarcely four months earlier.