Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was an English writer of the early eighteenth century, best known for *Robinson Crusoe* (1719), often called the first English novel.
The story of a castaway surviving alone on an island established a template for survival narratives.
Defoe also wrote *Moll Flanders* and worked as a journalist, pamphleteer, and spy.
- FridayFifth weekday
- Grub StreetWorld of hack writers
- dissenterOpponent of orthodoxy
- British literatureWriting from the UK
- pamphleteerWriter of political tracts
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- early literatureessay, novel, pamphlet, early novels, treatise
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- 1700s WritersAlexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Samuel Richardson, Ann Radcliffe
- British novel historyVictorian novels, Edwardian era, modernist literature, romanticism, realism
- Plague FictionThe Stand, World War Z, The Decameron, The Andromeda Strain, epidemic
literary realism vs. fantasy/romance
Daniel DefoeAlexander Pope
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Jonathan Swift · Horace Walpole · Ariosto · Voltaire · Ann Radcliffe