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: | Article |
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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) > Art History, Classical Studies, English and Creative Writing, Music Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Item ID: | 21592 |
| Depositing User: | Jean Fone |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2010 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2016 10:38 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21592 |
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