Defoe and the Whig Novel

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Defoe and the Whig Novel is written by Leon Guilhamet and published by University of Delaware Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0874130891 (ISBN 10) and 9780874130898 (ISBN 13).

Defoe's fictional settings all begin in the reign of the Stuarts, but the lack of specificity invariably reflects on the Hanoverian political and social situation, which witnessed a crisis in Whig leadership from 1717 to Walpole's resumption of power after the disaster of the South Sea Bubble and the sudden deaths of Stanhope and Sunderland. This serious split in Whig leadership probably played a role in Defoe's turning toward fiction. But Defoe never abandoned his social and political views. This study explores how his social viewpoint actuates his major fiction. --