The true-born Englishman: a satire [in verse]. PDF Download

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20

View

Book Description

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 52

View

Book Description

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32

View

Book Description

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

View

Book Description
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The True-Born Englishman is a satirical poem published in 1701 by Daniel Defoe in defense of the then King of England William, born in Holland, against the xenophobic attacks of his political enemies and ridiculing the notion of English racial purity. It quickly became popular. According to a preface that Defoe supplied to a 1703 edition, the poem's stated purpose is not English as such, but English cultural xenophobia against the cultural unrest caused by the new immigrants. Defoe's argument was that the English nation as it existed in its day was the product of various incoming European ethnic groups, from the ancient British to the Anglo-Saxons, the Normans and beyond. Therefore, there was no point in abusing newcomers, as English law and customs would guarantee their inevitable assimilationI only infer that an English man, of all men, should not despise foreigners as such, and I believe that the inference is fair, since what they are for the day, we went yesterday, and tomorrow they will be like us. If foreigners misbehave at their various stations and jobs, I have nothing to do with it; The Laws are open to punish them equally with the Natives, and let them have no Favor.

Author: Hugh Walker
Publisher: London and Toronto : J.M. Dent & sons lts ; New York : E. P. Dutton & Company
ISBN:
Category : Satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 344

View

Book Description

Author: W R Owens
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000161773
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 594

View

Book Description
The publication of the 44-volume Works of Daniel Defoe continues with this collection of Defoe's satirical poetry and fantasy writings, and writings on the supernatural.

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

View

Book Description
13 écrits majeurs de la phase radicale de Defoe le montrant moraliste passionné, styliste superbe et pionnier dans le journalisme politique.

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62

View

Book Description
The True-Born Englishman is a satirical poem published in 1701 by Daniel Defoe defending the then King of England William, who was Dutch-born, against xenophobic attacks by his political enemies, and ridiculing the notion of English racial purity

Author: Declan Kavanagh
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611488257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269

View

Book Description
Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully excluding others on the basis of their perceived effeminacy or foreignness. However, this book is not a literary analysis of the Wilkes affair in the 1760s, nor is it a linear account of Wilkes’s political career. Instead, Effeminate Years examines the cultural crisis of effeminacy that made Wilkes’s politicking so appealing. The central theoretical problem that this study addresses is the argument about what is and is not political: where does individual autonomy begin and end? Addressing this question, Kavanagh traces the shaping influence of the discourse of effeminacy in the literature that was generated by Wilkes’s legal and sexual scandals, while, at the same time, he also reads Wilkes’s spectacular drumming up of support as a timely exploitation of the broader cultural crisis of effeminacy during the mid century in Britain. The book begins with the scandals and agitations surrounding Wilkes, and ends with readings of Edmund Burke’s (1729-1797) earliest political writings, which envisage political community—a vision, that Kavanagh argues, is influenced by Wilkes and the effeminate years of the 1760s. Throughout, Kavanagh shows how interlocutors in the political and cultural debates of the mid-eighteenth-century period in Britain, such as Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) and Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), attempt to resolve the problem of effeminate excess. In part, the resolution for Wilkes and Charles Churchill (1731-1764) was to shunt effeminacy onto the sexually non-normative. On the other hand, Burke, in his aesthetic theorization of the beautiful privileges the socially constitutive affects of feeling effeminate. Through an analysis of poetry, fiction, social and economic pamphlets, aesthetic treatises, journalism and correspondences, placed within the latest queer historiography, Kavanagh demonstrates that the mid-century effeminacy crisis served to re-conceive male heterosexuality as the very mark of political legitimacy. Overall, Effeminate Years explores the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject, which are still the basis of debate and argument in our own time.

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90

View

Book Description