Daniel Defoe (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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The author of 547 publications, Defoe was a ministerial student, a merchant, an importer, and a political agent for the English monarchs William and Mary. He was representative of the English intellectual revolution that denounced traditional authority and questioned even sacrosanct subjects, making him too radical for both Whigs and Tories. In 1685 he participated in Monmouth’s Rebellion against King James II, narrowly escaping Judge Jeffrey’s Bloody Assizes. As part of William and Mary’s triumphal procession into London (1689), Defoe wrote pamphlets...
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