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  • novels that followed Robinson Crusoe: Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a cavalier, A journal of the plague year, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana

  • later works: Everybody's business is nobody's business, the nonfiction essay Conjugal Lewdness or Matrimonial Whoredom, A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed

  • died in 1731, in the age od 71

Robinson Crusoe

  • expression of the European colonial desires
  • importance of the repentence
  • mark of the strenght of the religious convictions
  • first English novel (?)
  • long, imaginative literary masterpiece
  • written in the style of the social realism
  • immediate success
  • a "world book"

Robinson Crusoe

  • a story about a man who is the only who manages to survive the shipwreck
  • based on a true event - Alexander Selkirk
  • allegory for the development of civilization
  • a manifesto of the economic individualism

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

  • in 1791, in his age of 59
  • one of the most widely read and the most influential works of all the times
  • a world-wide famous novel
  • essays: An essay upon project, The shortest way with the dissenters, An essay upon literature
  • two poems: The true-born Englishman, Hymn to the pillory
  • non-fiction works: The Storm, The Family Instructor, Memoirs of the Church of Scotland, The history of the remarkable life of John Sheppard, The narrative of all the robberies and escapes of John Sheppard...
  • five hundred books, journals, essays, short stories, satirical poems, biographies, political and religious pamphlets, treatises...
  • themes: politics, crime, marriage, moral, supernatural
  • "The True-Born Englishman"
  • arrestment, placement in a pillory
  • intelligence agent
  • "The History of the Union of Great Britain"
  • working as a spy
  • "The Complete English Tradesman"
  • the magazine "Review"
  • dissenting academy at Newington Green

  • travells through Europe

  • general merchant - selling wine and wool

  • close ally and secret agent of William III

  • bankruptcy

  • entering the field of politics

  • "An Essay Upon Projects"
  • Daniel Foe
  • born in 1660
  • -de added to Foe = Defoe
  • butcher family
  • educated in Dorking, in Surrey
  • presbiterian dissenter family
  • 198 pen names
  • enigmatic figure
  • ahead of his time
  • double-dealing, dishonest conduct
  • one of the most significant writers of the eighteenth century

  • the founder or the one of the founders of the English modern novel

  • one of the earliest proponents of the novel, popularizing the form in Britain

  • the father of the modern journalism
  • English writer

  • trader

  • businessman

  • journalist

  • pamphleteer

  • prolific author

  • a spy
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