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Biography (6)

Daniel Defoe

12,525 words, approx. 42 pages

Biography EssayDaniel Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; wi... Read more

Daniel Defoe

1,276 words, approx. 5 pages

The English novelist, journalist, poet, and government agent Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, articles, and poems. Among the most productive authors of the Augustan Age, ... Read more

Daniel Defoe

5,401 words, approx. 19 pages

The sheer weight of numbers is astounding. Daniel Defoe wrote over five hundred and sixty works of fiction, nonfiction prose, and poetry. His best-known novels were composed within five years of each ... Read more

Daniel Defoe

12,874 words, approx. 43 pages

Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that ... Read more

Daniel Defoe

11,409 words, approx. 39 pages

How does a poet turn into a novelist, what are the skills or talents that he takes from one art to the other, and what are the preoccupations, themes, or subjects in the poems themselves? These are so... Read more

Daniel Defoe

8,829 words, approx. 30 pages

Today Daniel Defoe is known as the author of great novels--Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1721), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), Roxana (1724), and others less well known. In his own time... Read more

Essays & Analysis (3)

Pearl G. Aldrich

3,686 words, approx. 13 pages

In the following essay, Aldrich identifies similarities of plot, character, theme, and language between the modern television serial drama and the novels of Daniel Defoe. Should one mention Defoe and ... Read more

Daniel Defoe and the Apparition of Mrs Veal

1,490 words, approx. 5 pages

"Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there, And't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation" (Defoe, The True-Born Englishman. Part I... Read more

Comparison of Journal of the Plague Year and Oroonoko

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Throughout history, slaves have been treated like animals and thought of as property, not human beings. Even Oroonoko, a handsome, statuesque prince is turned into a slave because of his race, and i... Read more