His “merry Fellow” William: How Defoe Humanized His Quaker Contemporaries
Critics have long been puzzled by Daniel Defoe’s depictions of Quakers. Praising them in his Review but mocking them in his Quaker-voiced pamphlets, Defoe sketches Quaker characters in his novels that are helpful to his protagonists but are hardly paragons of moral virtue. Some scholars have conclud...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Language: | Inglês |
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Western Washington University
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries |
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| Online Access: | https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/vol16/iss1/1/ |
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