Abstract
Daniel Defoe’s Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724– 26) is a text that trumpets a Whiggish and rational view of the nation, a view echoed by some of its critics. Despite the Tour ’s self-projection, anomalous territories and populations trouble its pages. These pockets of disorder and irrationality, often occurring in excurses and illustrations, are controlled through fantasies of armed enclosure, whose terms are derived from John Locke. Rather than a homogeneous imagined community, the Tour ’s ideological and stylistic ruptures suggest a more fractured nation where dissent requires violent, rational containment.
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