Defoe y Coetzee

Daniel Defoe and the Written Constitution

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 R I. DEFOE AS MYTH-MAKER, COGNATE, AND PRECEDENT . . . . . . 79 R II. FROM THE PROMISE TO THE TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 R A. A Serious Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 R B. Party-Tyranny . . . . . . . . ...

The body in Swift and Defoe

Did Johnson possess real medical learning and understanding or merely a standard smattering of information? The issue has been much debated. Wiltshire persuasively argues the former. He shows, especially by examination of Johnson's correspondence, that he possessed a clear grasp of Boerhaavian iatromechanism. Johnson's considerable faith in venesection followed from such physiological principle...

J. M. Coetzee and Colonial Violence

Ein Bericht vom Pestjahr London 1665, Daniel Defoe

so slow to grasp the implication of the use of whole blood in World War I, limited though that experience was; why it did not take advantage of the successful bloodprogram used during the Spanish Civil War; and why it did not immediately make use of the British experience in the early months of World War II when the necessity and value of whole blood for combat casualties were so clearly proved...

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