Reading (and Not Reading) Anonymity: Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the Regulation of the Press and A Vindication of the Press
In this essay I take up the anonymous An Essay on the Regulation of the Press (1704) and A Vindication of the Press (1718), both regularly attributed to Daniel Defoe.While the pamphlets themselves magnets consider anonymity essential to a work being read and interpreted, paradoxically, twentieth- and twenty-first century critics insist on correct a