Of Captain Mission

Overview

"Defoe has been recognized as the author of A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE ROBBERIES AND MURDERS OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS PYRATES since 1932, when John Robert Moore suggested that the supposed author, Captain Charles Johnson, like Andrew Moreton, Kara Selym, or Captain Roberts, was merely another mask for the creator of ROBINSON CRUSOE. Although most of the first volume is of minor literary importance, the second section -- which appeared in 1728 as THE HISTORY OF THE PYRATES -- commenced with a life "Of Captain Misson and His Crew," one of Defoe's most remarkable and neglected works of fiction. In much the same manner and at the same time that John Gay was satirizing Walpole's government in THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, Defoe began to use his pirates as a commentary on the injustice and hypocrisy of contemporary English society. Among Defoe's gallery of pirates are Captain White, who refused to rob from women and children; Captain Bellamy, the proletarian revolutionist; and captain North, whose sense of justiceand honesty was a rebuke to the corruption of government under Walpole.

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Bio of Daniel Defoe

Defoe was a prolific novelist, journalist and pamphleteer. His work is notable for its realism, precision and directness of style. Defoe is also recognized as the first author in modern English literature to write ghost stories.

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Digireads.com

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57.95 KB

Number of Pages

64

eBook ISBN

9781102363422