The Protestant Monastery

The Protestant Monastery: or, a Complaint against the Brutality of the Present Age is a 1726 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe.^[1] It focuses on contemporary disrespect towards elders.^[2] Similarly to Every-body's Business, Is No-body's Business (1725), Parochial Tyranny (1727), Augusta Triumphans (1728) and Second Thoughts are Best (1729), it was published under the pseudonym of Andrew Moreton.^[1] Defoe did not sign his name to the majority of his works.^[3] He preferred them to be published anonymously or under one of his pen names.^[3] This choice was "sometimes" made "to conceal his authorship or to stimulate sales, but more characteristically to establish a point of view".^[3]

References

1. P B, Backscheider (1989). Daniel Defoe.His Life. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 517.
2. J, Richetti (2008). The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 40.
3. J R, Moore (1971). "Defoe's Persona as Author: The Quaker's Sermon". SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 11 (3). Rice University: 507–516. doi:10.2307/449910. JSTOR 449910.

Bibliography

• Backscheider, P B, Daniel Defoe. His Life, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1989.
• "Social Projects", Daniel Defoe. The Collection of the Lily Library, Indiana University Bloomington, 2008, retrieved 25 October 2015
• George, M D, London Life in the Eighteenth Century, Penguin Books, Great Britain, 1979.
• Maldonado, T, "Defoe and the 'Projecting Age'", MIT Press, vol. 18, no. 1, 2002, pp. 78-85, retrieved 20 October 2015, JSTOR
• Moore, J R, "Defoe's Persona as Author: The Quaker's Sermon", SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 507-516, retrieved 20 November 2015, JSTOR
• Novak, M E, "Last Productive Years", Daniel Defoe Master of Fictions. His Life and Ideas, Oxford University Press, United States of America, 2001.

External links

• Daniel Defoe. The Collection of the Lily Library