JOURNAL ARTICLE

Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–1742 by Melissa Mowry (review).

  • Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023, v. 56, n. 3. P. 484 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Degabriele, Peter 3 of 3

Abstract

The Tory Aphra Behn and the dissenting Whig Daniel Defoe, for instance, are, in Mowry's account, engaged in the same political project of anti-collectivism rather than existing on opposite sides of a partisan political spectrum. This allegorical reading of Defoe is certainly plausible, however it does ask readers to trust that Defoe's understanding of English political history jibes with Mowry's own very specific and detailed account. The next two chapters focus respectively on Daniel Defoe's I Moll Flanders i and I Roxana i , and both chapters treat Defoe as someone intimately concerned with struggles over the interpretation of recent English history. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2023/04, Vol. 56, Issue 3, p484
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-2586
  • DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.0041
  • Accession Number:162747144
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