Political action as religious duty (Family histries, works, and memoirs Book 2)
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When Harley was ousted from the ministry in , Defoe continued writing the Review to support Godolphin , then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of — The Tories fell from power with the death of Queen Anne , but Defoe continued doing intelligence work for the Whig government, writing "Tory" pamphlets that undermined the Tory point of view. Not all of Defoe's pamphlet writing was political.
Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, Bargrave's encounter with her old friend Mrs.
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Veal after she had died. It is clear from this piece and other writings that the political portion of Defoe's life was by no means his only focus.
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In despair during his imprisonment for the seditious libel case, Defoe wrote to William Paterson , the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme , who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , leading minister and spymaster in the English Government. Harley accepted Defoe's services and released him in He immediately published The Review , which appeared weekly, then three times a week, written mostly by himself.
This was the main mouthpiece of the English Government promoting the Act of Union Defoe began his campaign in The Review and other pamphlets aimed at English opinion, claiming that it would end the threat from the north, gaining for the Treasury an "inexhaustible treasury of men", a valuable new market increasing the power of England.
By September , Harley ordered Defoe to Edinburgh as a secret agent to do everything possible to help secure acquiescence in the Treaty of Union. He was conscious of the risk to himself. Healey, Oxford , far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents. His first reports included vivid descriptions of violent demonstrations against the Union.
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Years later John Clerk of Penicuik , a leading Unionist, wrote in his memoirs that it was not known at the time that Defoe had been sent by Godolphin:. He was therefor a spy among us, but not known to be such, otherways the Mob of Edin. Defoe was a Presbyterian who had suffered in England for his convictions, and as such he was accepted as an adviser to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and committees of the Parliament of Scotland.
He told Harley that he was "privy to all their folly" but "Perfectly unsuspected as with corresponding with anybody in England". He was then able to influence the proposals that were put to Parliament and reported,. For Scotland, he used different arguments, even the opposite of those which he used in England, usually ignoring the English doctrine of the Sovereignty of Parliament , for example, telling the Scots that they could have complete confidence in the guarantees in the Treaty.
Some of his pamphlets were purported to be written by Scots, misleading even reputable historians into quoting them as evidence of Scottish opinion of the time. The same is true of a massive history of the Union which Defoe published in and which some historians still treat as a valuable contemporary source for their own works. Defoe took pains to give his history an air of objectivity by giving some space to arguments against the Union but always having the last word for himself. He disposed of the main Union opponent, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun , by ignoring him.
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Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from to became so supine in He received very little reward from his paymasters and of course no recognition for his services by the government. He made use of his Scottish experience to write his Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain , published in , where he admitted that the increase of trade and population in Scotland which he had predicted as a consequence of the Union was "not the case, but rather the contrary".
Defoe's description of Glasgow Glaschu as a "Dear Green Place" has often been misquoted as a Gaelic translation for the town's name. The Gaelic Glas could mean grey or green, while chu means dog or hollow. Glaschu probably means "Green Hollow". The local Tron minister urged his congregation "to up and anent for the City of God". The "Dear Green Place" and "City of God" required government troops to put down the rioters tearing up copies of the Treaty at almost every mercat cross in Scotland. When Defoe visited in the mids, he claimed that the hostility towards his party was "because they were English and because of the Union, which they were almost universally exclaimed against".
The extent and particulars are widely contested concerning Defoe's writing in the period from the Tory fall in to the publication of Robinson Crusoe in Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honour and Justice , a defence of his part in Harley's Tory ministry — Other works that anticipate his novelistic career include The Family Instructor , a conduct manual on religious duty; Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr.
Mesnager , in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager , the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht ; and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy , a satire of European politics and religion, ostensibly written by a Muslim in Paris. From to , Defoe published the novels for which he is famous see below. Perhaps his greatest achievement with the novels is the magisterial A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain —27 , which provided a panoramic survey of British trade on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
He discusses the role of the tradesman in England in comparison to tradesmen internationally, arguing that the British system of trade is far superior. Most of the British gentry , he argues is at one time or another inextricably linked with the institution of trade, either through personal experience, marriage or genealogy. Marriage to a tradesman's daughter by a nobleman was also common. Overall Defoe demonstrated a high respect for tradesmen , being one himself. Not only does Defoe elevate individual British tradesmen to the level of gentleman , but he praises the entirety of British trade as a superior system.
He states that through imperialism and trade expansion the British empire is able to "increase commerce at home" through job creation and increased consumption. Published in his late fifties, [26] this novel relates the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island for twenty-eight years and his subsequent adventures. Throughout its episodic narrative, Crusoe's struggles with faith are apparent as he bargains with God in times of life-threatening crises, but time and again he turns his back after his deliverances. He is finally content with his lot in life, separated from society, following a more genuine conversion experience.
Usually read as fiction, a coincidence of background geography suggests that this may be non-fiction. In the opening pages of The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe , the author describes how Crusoe settled in Bedford , married and produced a family, and that when his wife died, he went off on these further adventures.
Bedford is also the place where the brother of "H. Defoe went to school in Stoke Newington, London, with a friend named Caruso.
It has been supposed that Defoe may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian -Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail , who was known as "Abubacer" in Europe. The Latin edition of the book was entitled Philosophus Autodidactus and it was an earlier novel that is also set on a deserted island. Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton , an adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the hero and his religious mentor, Quaker William Walters.
A novel often read as non-fiction, this is an account of the Great Plague of London in It is undersigned by the initials "H. It is an historical account of the events based on extensive research, published in Bring out your dead! The ceaseless chant of doom echoed through a city of emptied streets and filled grave pits. Through the eyes of a saddler who had chosen to remain while multitudes fled, the master realist vividly depicted a plague-stricken city. He re-enacted the terror of a helpless people caught in a tragedy they could not comprehend: With dramatic insight he captured for all time the death throes of a great city.
Colonel Jack follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military and marital imbroglios, and religious conversion, driven by a problematic notion of becoming a "gentleman. Also in , Defoe wrote Moll Flanders , another first-person picaresque novel of the fall and eventual redemption, both material and spiritual, of a lone woman in 17th-century England.
The titular heroine appears as a whore, bigamist, and thief, lives in The Mint , commits adultery and incest, and yet manages to retain the reader's sympathy.
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Her savvy manipulation of both men and wealth earns her a life of trials but ultimately an ending in reward. Although Moll struggles with the morality of some of her actions and decisions, religion seems to be far from her concerns throughout most of her story.
However, like Robinson Crusoe, she finally repents. Moll Flanders is an important work in the development of the novel, as it challenged the common perception of femininity and gender roles in 18th-century British society, and it has come to be widely regarded as an example of erotica. Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress , are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional characters yet "drawn from life" , not least in that they are women.
Roxana narrates the moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan. Roxana differs from other Defoe works because the main character does not exhibit a conversion experience, even though she claims to be a penitent later in her life, at the time that she's relaying her story. Daniel Defoe died on 24 April , probably while in hiding from his creditors. He often was in debtors' prison.