Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R.
(2000).
Defoe, the De la Faye letters and Mercurius Politicus.
British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23(1),
pp. 13–19.
Abstract
This article presents a new interpretation of the famous series of six letters written by Defoe in 1718 to Charles Delafaye, the Under-Secretary of State, in which he describes himself as having been employed by the Whig government to pass himself off as a Tory and insinuate himself into the management of Tory journals in order to weaken their attacks on the Whigs. It argues that these letters were a fiction, and that Defoe was instead deceiving his own Government paymasters.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
2000 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| ISSN: |
0141-867X |
| Keywords: |
English literature |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
21592 |
| Depositing User: |
Jean Fone
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Jul 2010 08:42 |
| Last Modified: |
05 May 2011 14:44 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21592 |
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