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The Best of Defoe's Review: An Anthology

by Daniel Defoe, William Payne L., William L. Payne. 294 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Daniel Defoe, William Payne L., William L. Payne

Publisher:

   Columbia University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1951
Subjects:   Great Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714--Sources, Great Britain--Social Life And Customs--18th Century
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Introduction by Marjorie Nicolson ix
PORTRAIT OF THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN
The Aim, Purpose, and Manner of the Review 3
A Short Digression upon the Consequences of Truth 8
Mr. Review Takes a Stand 9
Defoe's Alter Ego 11
Mr. Review Defends Mr. Defoe 13
Defoe Carries a Stick 16
For Knaves--the Contempt of Silence 21
The Review Scorns Its Critics 25
Where's the Proof? 30
His Proper Employment 34
Assassins Defied 39
Principles, Principles, Principles 44
Mr. Review Treads the Milky Way 47
Defoe Defends His Reputation 54
Defoe Spends the Weekend in Jail 56
Mr. Review Measures His Courage 61
The Review Reviewed 65
THE PRESS: LICENSE AND LIBERTY
Of Truth, and Freedom of the Press 73
A Proposed Tax Examined 77
Of Taxing the Press 81
The Nature of Satire 86
Idiot Review and Scurrilous Examiner 90
Journalist Dyer Rebuked 94
The Publisher of the Review Kidnapped 97
Mr. Review Apologizes to the Court 100
ECONOMICS AND TRADE: BRITAIN'S MYSTERY AND BULWARK
Of Divinity in Trade 107
Trade, the Bulwark of England 111
Consumer Credit the Ruin of Trade 115
Credit, the Invisible Phantom 117
Of the Laws about Insolvent Debtors 119
Mr. Review Plumps for Free Trade 123
The Trade in Baubles and Trifles 127
Money, Money, Money 131
Refugees: England's Good Fortune 134
Wages, People, Prosperity 137
Circulation in Trade, and a Suit of Clothes 142
Defoe's Plea for the Refugee 146
POLITICS: BRITAIN'S GLORY AND SHAME
Defoe's Part in the Union of Scotland and England 153
A United Nations for 1709 155
The War Makers 160
A Toast to King William 162
Electioneering, English Style 166
The Union Forever 172
England Not Imperialist 176
A Pun upon Peace Makers 179
CURIOSA: BRITAIN'S MANNERS, MORALS, AND WONDERS
Mr. Spectator, Mr. Review, and Mr. Milton 187
Thieves and Tyrants of Merry England 190
Mr. Review as Chanticleer 195
Petticoat Government 199
A Digression upon Witches 202
On the Reformation of Manners 205
Mr. Review Defends the Quakers 208
Exit Mohock 214
The Plague at Elseneur 218
England's Coffeehouse Generals 222
The Valor and Ignorance of England's Gentry 226
Brides Beware! 229
An Abused Wife's Appeal 232
Immoral Audience and Moral Playwright 235
Hamlet Repairs a Church 239
A Project to Suppress the Stage 243
Oxford Rebuked 248
Upon Love and Smoking 252
The Duel of Lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton 255
A Tilt at Profanity 258
Mr. Spectator Disputed 262
The Luxury-loving Middle Class 266
Give Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal! 269
Barren Britain 272
Index 277
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