Defoe and Scottish politics after union

Title: Defoe and Scottish politics after union
Creator: Gathorne, R
Subject: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Political and social views
Subject: Scotland -- History -- 1689-1745
Date Issued: 1954
Date: 1954
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:2605
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011941
Description: It would indeed have been a difficult matter for anybody possessing a taste for self-expression, a facility with words and an insatiable imagination to avoid becoming involved in political controversy in England during the early part of the Eighteenth Century. For one who, in addition, was confident in his ability to solve problems of state of whatever complexity it was clearly an impossibility. Daniel Defoe's close connection with politics during the first years of the Eighteenth Century involved him in numerous hardships. In later years it brought him much less fame than his excursions into fiction; but it was the means of providing him, albeit sparsely at times, with sufficient money to keep his creditors at bay. On more than one occasion the protection he gained helped to rescue him from imprisonment. Intro., p. 1.
Format: 209 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, History
Language: English
Rights: Gathorne, R

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