Daniel Defoe: Daniel Defoe: Political Works

Cover: 9788028355470 | Daniel Defoe: Political Works | Daniel Defoe | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Daniel Defoe: Political Works gathers the prose of a writer for whom politics was not an abstract discipline but the urgent language of public life. These pamphlets, essays, and polemical interventions reveal Defoe's command of plain, forceful English, sharpened by irony, satire, and practical reasoning. Set amid the turbulence of late Stuart and early Hanoverian Britain-religious dissent, party conflict, commercial expansion, and debates over union and succession-the volume shows how political argument helped form modern journalism and the early eighteenth-century public sphere. Defoe's own life made him unusually fitted to write such works. A Dissenter, merchant, government agent, prisoner, and prolific controversialist, he experienced the pressures of law, commerce, faith, and state power at close range. His political imagination was shaped by instability: bankruptcy, persecution, propaganda, and the shifting loyalties of Whig and Tory culture. These experiences gave his writing both its urgency and its striking attention to ordinary economic and civic realities. This volume is recommended to readers interested in the origins of modern political writing, journalism, and public debate. It will especially reward students of eighteenth-century literature, political history, and Defoe's broader achievement beyond Robinson Crusoe.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028355470
ISBN-10:	8028355471
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Defoe, Daniel
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Daniel Defoe
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.12.2023
Gewicht:	0,695 kg