Stefan Heym, contemporary cosmopolitan intellectual, looks back on the XVIII century
The essay considers a novel by Stefan Heym, The Queen Against Defoe, which depicts the events that took place in late 1701-early 1702 in London, when Defoe published his satirical work The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. Heym takes advantage of the persecution which Defoe underwent at the hands of...
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Firenze University Press
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Diciottesimo Secolo |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/view/320 |