Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R.
(2000).
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2000.tb00575.x |
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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 Item |
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Copyright Holders: | 2000 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
ISSN: | 0141-867X |
Keywords: | English literature |
Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Cultures Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
Research Group: | History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) |
Item ID: | 21592 |
Depositing User: | Jean Fone |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2010 08:42 |
Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2018 10:46 |
URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21592 |
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