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Defoe, Dissent, and Early Whig Ideology
dc.contributor.author | Clark, Katherine P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-11T21:25:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-11T21:25:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-01-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Clark, Katherine P. "Defoe, Dissent, and Early Whig Ideology." Historical Journal (2009) 52, 3. 595-614. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X09990045. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16648 | |
dc.description | This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X09990045. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The nature of Whig ideology at its formation in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries continues to attract the attention of historians of political thought. This article contends that prevalent understandings of the taxonomy of the subject nevertheless still often remain secular, and do not fully attend to the religious constituencies of the authors involved. One key author was Daniel Defoe, who was credited with several anonymous pamphlets published after the Revolution of 1688. The effect of these attributions is to reinforce a homogenized picture of early Whig political ideology that fails to identify differences between authors who used similar terms such as ‘ contract ’, ‘ resistance ’, and ‘ natural law’. This article de-attributes certain of these pamphlets, outlines the consequences for the history of political thought of that de-attribution, re-establishes Defoe’s own political identity, and proposes that such a taxonomy should give more attention to religious difference. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_US |
dc.title | Defoe, Dissent, and Early Whig Ideology | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Clark, Katherine P. | |
kusw.kudepartment | History | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0018246X09990045 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |