{"product_id":"defoes-politics-manuel-schonhorn-9780521384520","title":"Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'","description":"This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical demand to see Defoe as a \"modern\" and to counter misrepresentations of his political writings by restoring their seventeenth-century context. Offering a full examination of Defoe's years as a political reporter and journalist (1689-1715), it recovers his traditional, conservative and anti-Lockean ideas on contemporary issues: the origins of society, the role of the people in the establishment of a political society and how monarchies are created and maintained as the means of achieving a beneficent political order. At the heart of Defoe's political imagination, Manuel Schonhorn finds the vision of a warrior-king, derived from sources in the Bible, and in ancient and English history. The model illuminates his original reading of Robinson Crusoe, which emerges less in terms of a family romance, a tract for the rising bourgeoisie or a Lockean parable of government, than as a dramatic re-enactment of Defoe's life-long political preoccupations concerning society, government and kingship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Manuel Schonhorn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521384524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521384520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Manuel Schonhorn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47422109221119,"sku":"9780521384520","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d696f0e-0cfb-41ad-8d14-1e693995b007.jpg?v=1761527431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defoes-politics-manuel-schonhorn-9780521384520","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}