Defoe: the man in the works

Backscheider, Paula R.

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“…37 Defoe's involvement with Dissenting groups such as the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Reformation of Manners reinforced his access to the social networks through which ideas and causes might achieve expansive geographic reach. 38 Defoe's own education and his beliefs about education placed geography in the foreground as conducive to a useful civic life. His experiences, near the beginning of his career, of the efficacy of his own geographic literacy in the service of public causes, and in simply earning his daily bread, must have confirmed the priority his education had given it.…”

Section: Geography and The Dissenting Educationmentioning

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“…Towards the end of this career, the major publications that have secured Defoe's reputation expressed what was now a general, public 'passion for learning geography'. 39 As well as producing geography in such projects as A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, or in the maps that attended early editions of Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, Defoe's later work explores the meaning and importance of geographic literacy, suggesting ways in which geographically literate Englishmen of various social classes might find their place and play their proper civic role. 40…”

Section: Geography and The Dissenting Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…II. 35,38). Once settled in his trade, Defoe's 'complete English tradesman' should follow a 'straight and direct way', taking care not to 'wander' into the 'turnings and by-lanes' of unnecessary projects and adventures (vol.…”

Section: 'The Complete English Tradesman'mentioning

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“…Like the hero of The Spectator -a journal that Defoe much admired at first -they are a species of 'Speculative Statesman, Soldier, Merchant, and Artizan'. 55 Holding this poise between the purely practical and esoteric scholarship, they are not 'meer bookcases', but neither are they, like professional 'voiagers, surveyors, soldiers, etc. ', limited to 'the narrow compass of their owne actings'.…”

Section: 'The Compleat English Gentleman'mentioning

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Geographic Literacy and Defoe's Complete Englishmen: Mere Bookcases v. Walking Maps

Edwards¹

2011

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Whether learning how to work the streets as a pickpocket or picking up the art of navigation, Daniel Defoe's characters find, in John Richetti's words, that ‘the exact apprehension of the world is a technique for survival’: a measure of their capacity for ‘pushing back against a potentially destructive world’. This article pursues this issue of apprehension beyond Defoe's novels and into his non‐fictional explorations of model lives, where geographic literacy or competence often figures as an index of the capacity to act effectively and responsibly in the world.

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Section: Geography and The Dissenting Educationmentioning

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Geographic Literacy and Defoe's Complete Englishmen: Mere Bookcases v. Walking Maps

Edwards¹

2011

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“…39 From 1689 until his spectacular bankruptcy in October 1692, Defoe was evidently preoccupied with rescuing his business affairs. 40 The circumstantial case for attributing to him Reflections upon the late great revolution emerges as a weak one.…”

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Defoe, Dissent, and Early Whig Ideology

Clark

2009

Hist. J.

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A B S T R A C T. The nature of Whig ideology at its formation in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries continues to attract the attention of historians of political thought. This article contends that prevalent understandings of the taxonomy of the subject nevertheless still often remain secular, and do not fully attend to the religious constituencies of the authors involved. One key author was Daniel Defoe, who was credited with several anonymous pamphlets published after the Revolution of 1688. The effect of these attributions is to reinforce a homogenized picture of early Whig political ideology that fails to identify differences between authors who used similar terms such as 'contract ', ' resistance ', and 'natural law'. This article de-attributes certain of these pamphlets, outlines the consequences for the history of political thought of that de-attribution, re-establishes Defoe's own political identity, and proposes that such a taxonomy should give more attention to religious difference.

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Viral Shakespeare

Aebischer

2021

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This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers how the archival recordings of Shakespeare productions made freely available by theatres across Europe and North America impacted on modes of spectatorship and viewing practices, with a particular focus on the effect of binge-watching Hamlet in lockdown. The Element's second section documents two made-for-digital productions of Shakespeare by Oxford-based Creation Theatre and Northern Irish Big Telly, two companies who became leaders in digital theatre during the pandemic. It investigates how their productions of The Tempest and Macbeth modelled new platform-specific ways of engaging with audiences and creating communities of viewing at a time when, in the UK, government policies were excluding most non-building-based theatre companies and freelancers from pandemic relief packages.

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Defoe: the man in the works

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Geographic Literacy and Defoe's Complete Englishmen: Mere Bookcases v. Walking Maps

Geographic Literacy and Defoe's Complete Englishmen: Mere Bookcases v. Walking Maps

Defoe, Dissent, and Early Whig Ideology

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