Reading (and Not Reading) Anonymity: Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the Regulation of the Press and A Vindication of the Press

In this essay I take up the anonymous An Essay on the Regulation of the Press (1704) and A Vindication of the Press (1718), both regularly attributed to Daniel Defoe. While the pamphlets themselves consider anonymity essential to a work being read and interpreted, paradoxically, twentieth- and twent...

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Main Author: Mark Vareschi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ghent University 2015-06-01
Series:Authorship
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Online Access:https://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/view/1106