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Daniel Defoe

The Whole Frame of Nature, Time and Providence

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  • © 2007

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  1. Katherine Clark
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 1-13

  3. Establishing a Voice: Defoe’s First Steps from Failed Tradesman to Successful Author

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 14-33

  4. ‘The Mushroom and the Oak’: Dissent and the Church of England, 1697–1705

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 34-50

  5. Jure Divino: Defoe, Locke and Milton, and Political Theory

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 51-77

  6. Defoe and the Union of 1707: Constructing a British Identity

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 78-94

  7. Correspondence, Credit, and Commerce: Defoe and the Instability of Meaning, 1709–1713

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 95-112

  8. Robinson Crusoe: Orthodox Penitent

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 113-137

  9. The Perils of Consumption and the Decline of Family Government

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 138-159

  10. Defoe’s Historical Vision: Commerce and Gentility in the 1720s

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 160-184

  11. The Devil and Daniel Defoe: History in a Heterodox Age

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 185-208

  12. Conclusion

    • Katherine Clark
    Pages 209-210

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 211-269
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Defoe's oeuvre from the perspective of the historian. Clark presents Defoe by recovering the theological basis of his intellectual commitments, establishing him as a crucial figure in the evolution of theories about war and property, conquest and commerce, religious toleration and civil society.

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'This is an important addition to the historically sophisticated literature on Daniel Defoe.' - History of Political Thought

About the author

KATHERINE CLARK is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas, USA

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