Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… a young man, he became a member of the London Butcher’s Company in January 1687 and he served on the petty jury for his ward in Cornhill, but aside from fulfilling these civic obligations, Defoe was not an active participant in the forms of … the wisdom of supporting King James II’s attempts to repeal the Test Acts (Defoe, An Appeal , 51-52). From this point onwards, he would go on to write hundreds of works of varying length and quality. The most conservative estimate of Defoe’s …
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