Forclosing on the Internet William B. Warner January 17, 2003 cyberspace@ucla |
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John Milton's publication of Areopagitica: a "speech" to "the Parlament of England", 1644 |
"A Letter Concerning Toleration", 1689. [John Locke] |
3 Anonymous Pamphlets [Daniel Defoe] |
Anon. Reasons ...for...the Castration of Popish Ecclesiastics Anonymous: attributed to Defoe by Early English Books, but not by Furbank & Owens, A Criitcal Biblography of Daniel Defoe. |
Anonymous pamphlet [Jonathan Swift] |
Fiction published as authored by Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe] |
Gulliver's Travels, 1726 [Swift] |
The Declaration of Independence: July 5, 1776; the Dunlop printed broadside: anonymity through corporate publication and a delegated signatures to certify authenticity |
The Declaration of Independence, passed July 4, 1776, but fine copy signed August, 1776: submerging identity through collective authorship. |