Daniel Defoe's Moral and Rhetorical IdeasThis book seeks to provide, by demonstrating that Daniel Defoe is a more deliberate thinker and a more calculatedly provocative teacher than is perhaps usually conceded, a context for the appreciation of the part which narrative contraries and dialectic play in his fiction. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Natural and Divine Law | 30 |
The Revolution of 1688 | 48 |
Copyright | |
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