Forclosing on the Internet

William B. Warner

January 17, 2003

cyberspace@ucla

"Foreclosing on the Internet": Slides

 










 

 

 

 

Enlightened Anonymity
 
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.