Daniel Defoe  Neoclassical

Info

- England's first great journalist

- Father of the English novel

- Whig; survived political tumults of his time

- pamphlets, periodicals, and novels

- wrote for Tory periodicals to weaken them

Works

-Robinson Crusoe - most famous work

- allegory of his life, or rather life he wished to have had

- The Shortest Way with Dissenters => imprisonment

- A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France

- Captain Singleton; Moll Flanders; Colonel Jacque; Roxana

Terms

- allegory - a story with a literal and implied level of meaning

- verisimilitude - the inclusion of minute detail to create an illusion of actuality

- narration - the telling of a story by a character or by the author himself

Citations

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.