Beschreibung:
This study restores Defoe's writings and ideas to their seventeenth-century context.
Preface and acknowledgments; A note on attributions; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Defoe, dissent and monarchy; 2. Defoe's Reflections Upon the Late Great Revolution and the political languages of 1689; 3. Defender of the king, 1689-1701; 4. From the death of William III to Jure Divino, 1702-1706; 5. Juro Divino; 6. The politics of Robinson Crusoe; Select bibliography; Index.