Daniel Defoe

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Standard Name: Defoe, Daniel

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Occupation Mary Carleton
The hostile story which has her establishing herself as a confidence trickster, using her sexual charms to prey on men in the manner of fictional characters like her avowed disciple Defoe 's Roxana, is borne...
Author summary Celia Fiennes
CF was a remarkable, indeed a unique, travel-writer about her own country. Travelling in the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, and writing the account that has come down to us in the latter...
Author summary Penelope Aubin
PA began publishing early in the eighteenth century. She is chiefly known for her short novels, though she turned her hand to poetry and comedy as well. At the height of her career her rate...
Publishing Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Paula R. Backscheider has noted the extraordinary popularity of this three-volume publication as measured in numbers of editions or re-issues: seventy-nine by 1825, eighty-nine by 1840, and in every decade from the 1730s to the...
Reception Eliza Haywood
Love in Excess, with its arguably six editions by 1725, has repeatedly been likened to Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe and Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels as bestselling English fictions before Pamela. It has never shared their status, partly...
Reception Eliza Haywood
For publishing it EH was arrested, and 800 copies of her work were impounded. It is not known how long she remained in custody, but this incident seems to have headed her off from specifically...
Reception Elizabeth Hervey
It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...
Textual Features Ann Fisher
The Young Scholar's Delight, or Familiar Companion, in dialogue form, treats geography, astronomy, and other sciences and arts, as well as (in the tradition of Defoe 's Family Instructor) religion and Bible study...
Textual Features Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
This book launched the genre of the false memoir (the form of, for instance, Defoe 's best-known novels, though the characters in French examples are generally high-born). It features the first female picaro in French...
Textual Features Delarivier Manley
Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde 's Lettres curieuses...
Textual Features Olaudah Equiano
The book moves into vivid narrative with OE 's abduction, his mostly tolerable experiences as a slave in Africa (constantly moving on until he reached a tribe who were morally corrupted by whites), and his...
Textual Production Nadine Gordimer
NG issued a collected volume of short stories, Friday's Footprint, whose title emblematises, through allusion to Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe, a key moment in colonial contact between different races.
In fact, the footprint...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
Like a Daniel Defoe or Samuel Richardson , she professes to be only the editor of her protagonist's own text.
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
A Spy upon the Conjuror (19 March 1724; three more issues followed) is the first of EH 's several pamphlets on the deaf-mute fortune-teller Duncan Campbell . It was advertised more than a year before...
Textual Production Willa Cather
The following year she contributed an introduction to an edition of Roxana by Daniel Defoe (issued under its subtitle of The Fortunate Mistress).
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
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