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- Title
Religion and the Anglican Narrator in Defoe's Tour.
- Authors
FUNG, JULIAN
- Abstract
Critics predominantly read Daniel Defoe's A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26) as a work promoting a vision of Britain as an economic power. They also treat the Tour's narrator as Defoe himself, or, at least, as a figure with the same beliefs as Defoe. In this article, I prove that the narrator of the Tow is not Defoe but a fictional persona, a staunch supporter of the Church of England. I also demonstrate that the work is not just an encomium of British commerce but a sophisticated argument for religious toleration.
- Subjects
DEFOE, Daniel, ca. 1661-1731; TOUR Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, A (Book : Defoe); NARRATION; CHURCH of England; BRITISH religions; TORY Party (Great Britain)
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2013, Vol 53, Issue 3, p565
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2013.0027