Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… and sometimes misled by his writings. Defoe did not know most of his readers personally, but he devoted most of his life to cultivating their attention. 1 . Brian Cowan, ‘Defoe’s Connections’, in Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. George … Defoe was not an active participant in the forms of guild and parish sociability that structured early modern urban life. 8 He was more involved with voluntary societies such as the Societies for the Reformation of Manners (SRM) … by Defoe; neither work was attributed to him until long after his death in the later eighteenth century. 11 9 . P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998). 10 . P. N. Furbank …
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