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Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 3 THE PICKERING MASTERS THE WORKS OF DANIEL DEFOE General Editors: W. R. Owens and P. N. Furbank SATIRE, FANTASY AND WRITINGS ON THE SUPER- NATURAL BY DANIEL DEFOE Volume 1: The True-born Englishman and other Poems, ed. W. R. Owens Volume 2: Jure Divino, ed. P. N. Furbank Volume 3: The Consolidator, Memoirs of Count Tariff, and The Quarrel of the School-Boys at Athens, ed. Geoffrey Sill Volume 4: Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager, Secret Memoirs of a Treasonable Conference at S— House, and The Old Whig and Modern Whig Revived, ed. P. N. Fur- bank Volume 5: The Conduct of Christians made the Sport of Infidels and A Continuation of Letters written by a Turkish Spy at Paris, ed. David Blewett Volume 6: The Political History of the Devil, ed. John Mullan Volume 7: A System of Magick, ed. Peter Elmer Volume 8: An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, ed. G. A. Starr SATIRE, FANTASY AND WRITINGS ON THE SUPERNATURAL BY DANIEL DEFOE General Editors: W. R. Owens and P. N. Furbank Vo lu m e 3 : THE CONSOLIDATOR (1705) MEMOIRS OF COUNT TARIFF, &c. (1713) THE QUARREL OF THE SCHOOL-BOYS AT ATHENS (1717) Edited by Geoffrey Sill First published 2002 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Taylor & Francis 2002 All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, an d are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Defoe, Daniel, 1661?–1731 Satire, fantasy and writings on the supernatural by Daniel Defoe Vols. 1–4. – (The Pickering masters. The works of Daniel Defoe) I. Title II. Owens, W. R. III. Furbank, P. N. (Philip Nicholas) 828.5’09 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Defoe, Daniel, 1661?–1731 Satire, fantasy and writings on the supernatural / by Daniel Defoe ; general editors, W. R. Owens and P. N. Furbank. v. cm. – (The works of Daniel Defoe) (The Pickering masters) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: v. 1. The true-born Englishman and other poems / ed., W. R. Owens – v. 2. Jure divino / ed., P. N. Furbank – v. 3. The consolidator, Memoirs of Count Tariff, and The quarrel of the school-boys at Athens / ed., Geoffrey Sill – v. 4. Minutes of the negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager, Secret memoirs of a treasonable conference at S— House, and The old Whig and modern Whig reviv’d / ed., P. N. Furbank. 1. Satire, English. 2. Fantasy literature, English. 3. Supernatural–Literary collections. I. Furbank, Philip Nicholas. II. Owens, W. R. III. Sill, Geoffrey, M., 1944– . IV. Title. V. Series: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?–1731. Works. 2001. PR3401.F87 2003 823’.5–dc22 2003016355 ISBN-13: 978-1-85196-728-5 (set) Typeset by P&C CONTENTS Introduction 1 The Consolidator (1705) 27 Memoirs of Count Tariff, &c (1713) 159 The Quarrel of the School-Boys at Athens (1717) 199 Explanatory notes 215 Textual notes 262 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In editing this volume, I enjoyed the great advantage of being able to con- sult the Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition of The Consolidator, edited by Michael Seidel, Maximillian E. Novak and Joyce D. Kennedy (New York, 2001). Their explanatory notes to this richly allusive text frequently pointed me in the right direction. I also benefited from the guidance, com- mentary and editorial interventions of Nick Furbank and Bob Owens, whose knowledge of Defoe’s works and their context is quite extraordinary. Both the explanatory notes and the introductory essay to this volume are much the better for having passed under their scrutiny. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the work of Paul Wilson, a graduate student at Rut- gers University-Camden, who turned copy text into electronic text with accuracy, speed and diligence. Any remaining errors in text or notes are entirely my own. INTRODUCTION Five years after bankruptcy had left him deeply in debt and a prisoner in the Fleet, Daniel Defoe published his first major work in prose, An Essay upon Projects.1 The Essay offered various schemes for the improvement of civil society – a bankruptcy court, and legal protections for bankrupts; an academy for the education of women; a school for military officers; an academy for the improvement of language and style; a lottery for the relief of the poor; a system of highways throughout the nation; a national bank, and so on. Such visionary ideas probably struck many of his contemporaries as the moon-eyed musings of a lunatic, and the book did not sell well enough to merit a second edition.2 Even so, the Essay vividly demonstrated Defoe’s ability to bring his imagination to bear on the social and economic issues of his times, and it established a pattern in which he would respond to adversity by suggesting that the institutions of which he had run afoul were themselves in need of reformation. Five years later, Defoe was again in prison, this time for his parody of High Church rhetoric in The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), and upon his release he again funnelled his personal disappointments into a long book. This book, The Consolidator, was written not to propose new projects, but to express Defoe’s frustration and anger at the hypocrisy of church and state politics from about 1679 to 1704, a quarter-century in which, in his view, the bright promise of the Protestant King William III had been squandered. The book tells the story of an imaginary trip to the moon, where the narrator finds a world in which are reflected, and in some cases corrected (though in other cases exacerbated), the faults in the one he 1 The amount of Defoe’s debt was said by himself to be £17,000, a figure that has gen- erally been accepted by his biographers. For a skeptical view of the evidence, see P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, ‘Defoe’s “£17,000” Bankruptcy’, Notes and Queries, 247 (2002), pp. 363–4. 2 Joyce Deveau Kennedy, ‘Defoe’s An Essay upon Projects: Bibliographic Descriptions and The Order of Issues’, Appendix A to Joyce D. Kennedy, Michael Seidel and Maximillian E. Novak (eds), An Essay upon Projects, The Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition (New York, 1999), p. 131. This book will hereafter be cited as Kennedy et al. See also D. N. DeLuna, ‘The Publication of Defoe’s Essay Upon Projects’, Papers of the Bibiliographical Society of America, 87 (1993), pp. 503–10. Defoe: Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural, Volume 3 left behind on Earth. Unlike the Essay, The Consolidator betrays what some readers have seen as Defoe’s growing pessimism about England’s chances for achieving social and political reform.3 While the Essay is an optimistic, public-spirited and practical guide to the improvement of the English nation, The Consolidator is a dark and doubtful journey, a jeremiad on the corruption of church and state. Where the Essay explores the public spaces of the marketplace, the highways and the seaports, The Consolidator takes its reader on a voyage into the imaginary spaces of fantasy and memory. The Essay is a transparent, progressive, forward-looking excursion, while The Consolidator probes the recesses of English political and religious history back to the accession of James II, veiling the identity of persons in allegory and hiding its fiercest satire in an impenetrable tangle of allusion. First published in March of 1705, The Consolidator was reissued in a ‘sec- ond edition’ in November 1705, and then reprinted only once in the next three centuries.4 Rarely discussed by critics, the book is admitted even by Defoe’s most enthusiastic readers to be ‘unsuccessful’ as satire, even though its imaginative elements are considered ‘very clever’.5 It suffers particularly by comparison with the works in prose of Defoe’s contemporary, Jonathan Swift, whose satire of the religious controversies of his day, A Tale of a Tub, appeared in May 1704, ten months prior to The Consolidator. The Ta le o f a Tu b was accompanied by The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, which parodied the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns and the artificial elevations of religious enthusiasm. Defoe treated these subjects and much more, but he consolidated them all into a rather shape- less and overlong work. Two decades later, Swift borrowed back many of his own ideas from The Consolidator for Gulliver’s Travels, taking with them Defoe’s notion of a single continuous narrative told by a traveller who becomes increasingly alienated from his fellows through his experiences of other worlds. Unlike Lemuel Gulliver, however, the narrator of The Consoli- dator is seldom distinguishable from the author who created him. When we finish the book, we put it down with feelings of exhaustion and despair, not with the redeeming sense of irony in the human condition that closes Gul- liver’s Travels. But if The Consolidator was less than successful as a work of satire, it opened the way to a still more imaginative genre, the fictional 3 Paula R.
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