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2000 |
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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. |
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1 |
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peerReviewed |
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23 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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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.
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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. |
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Defoe, the De la Faye letters and Mercurius Politicus |
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