“I shall not concern the Union in this Discourse” : Prétérition et engagement dans l’écriture pro-unioniste de Daniel Defoe, voyageur en Écosse

“I shall not concern the Union in this Discourse” : Prétérition et engagement dans l’écriture pro-unioniste de Daniel Defoe, voyageur en Écosse

This essay explores the singular political commitment and rhetoric of Daniel Defoe in his writings related to the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England in 1706. Several genres are analyzed in this essay but the stress is laid more particularly on a poem, Caledonia (1706) and a travel narrativ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emmanuelle PERALDO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2016-12-01
Series:E-REA
Subjects:
Scotland
commitment
preterition
political rhetoric
secret
Union
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/5582

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