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...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 a...
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"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...
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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...
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What's in a name? If the name is Friday, shame and ridicule, according to Italian judges who forbade a couple from naming their child like the character in "Robinson Crusoe.""They thought that it r...
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Friday's child is loving and giving — but not if he lives in Italy.Italian judges forbade a couple from naming their son Friday, saying it would bring the child shame and ridicule to be named...
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The costumed pirate wore a plumed hat and held a squat bottle labeled "rum" in his hand. Inside the bottle, dark liquid sloshed and fizzed."It's Coke. I didn't think rum would be appropriate at a s...
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ROME, Dec 18 (Reuters) - An Italian court has ruled that a
couple could not name their son "Friday" and ordered that he
instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was
born on. "I...
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LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A good place to see the true
frontline in Microsoft's battle with Google is deep in the
bowels of the British Library in London. In a room under the library's red brick b...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Pearl G. Aldrich
Daniel Defoe and the Apparition of Mrs Veal
Court says baby can't be named 'Friday'
