Daniel Defoe

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Standard Name: Defoe, Daniel

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Intertextuality and Influence Jane Barker
This and JB 's next novel are both more episodic than Love Intrigues. In To the Reader she defends her own patchwork method (so different from the extended narrative method which she associates, though...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Gerard
The book deals with the usual topics of travel writing: history, tradition, peasant life, and scenery, with a lucid exposition of the politics of the region.
Gerard, Emily. The Land Beyond the Forest. W. Blackwood and Sons, 1888, 2 vols.
1: 21ff
It includes attractive personal reminiscence. EG 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Gardam
As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe , to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination...
Intertextuality and Influence Beatrice Harraden
The child protagonist of Things Will Take a Turn, Rose (always called either Childie or Rosebud), has a grandfather who runs an unprofitable second-hand bookshop. She has read a lot and has (as well...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Harriet Burney
The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe)
Sabor, Peter. “Part of an Englishwoman’s Constitution: Sarah Harriet Burney and Shakespeare”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, 12 Oct. 2018.
a mother and daughter as castaways on an island: the mother emulates Crusoe in resourcefulness—until the discovery of male castaways gives...
Intertextuality and Influence A. S. Byatt
One reviewer noted ASB 's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content.
Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, 31 Jan. 1999, p. F7.
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In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Watts
After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso , the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Carleton
The bigamy scandal generated twenty-six topical publications. It provoked such works as a play by either Thomas Parker or John Holden , 1664. Later MC 's death by hanging made her an ideal subject for...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Chandler
Her poem played its part in the establishment of Bath as a resort which was respected and fashionable, on both medical and cultural grounds. When James Leake published a revised edition of A Tour of...
Intertextuality and Influence Muriel Spark
Robinson is the name both of the island and of one of its two long-term occupants, a recluse who has bought the island and exiled himself there out of disillusionment with human society. Behind this...
Intertextuality and Influence Cassandra Cooke
In a preface CC says she found the incident that forms the centre of this novel in The Christian Life by Dr John Scott (that is The Christian Life, from its beginning to its consummation...
Leisure and Society Mary Martha Sherwood
Her new religion, rigorous as it was, did not forbid fiction. Books were at a premium in India, and MMS was delighted at encountering Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe and Richardson . A new book, or...
Literary responses Harriet Corp
The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by...
Literary responses Caroline Leakey
Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was extremely positive. She praised the book as written with great force and earnestness, saying that even the hardened novel readers and stony-hearted critics at the Athenæumhave...

Timeline

27 January 1722: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunes...

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27 January 1722

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, his first fictional autobiography of a criminal woman.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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20 February 1722: Daniel Defoe published Religious Courtship...

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20 February 1722

Daniel Defoe published Religious Courtship . . ., a comprehensive tract on marriage from a religious viewpoint.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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17 March 1722: Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague...

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17 March 1722

Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year (set during the plague which began in April 1665).
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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29 February 1724: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate...

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29 February 1724

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate Mistress, or . . . Lady Roxana, his second fictional autobiography of a woman living on her wits.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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By 8 June 1725: The criminal Jonathan Wild was hanged: Daniel...

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By 8 June 1725

The criminal Jonathan Wild was hanged: Daniel Defoe wrote a hasty account of his life, and eighteen years later Henry Fielding made him a mock-heroic over-reacher.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
xxii
McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of Jonathan WildStudies in the Novel, Vol.
30
, No. 2, 1 June 1998– 2024, pp. 211-31.
225
The date is that of Defoe's catchpenny biography.

By 20 November 1725 : Daniel Defoe published the first volume of...

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By 20 November 1725

Daniel Defoe published the first volume of his business manual The Complete English Tradesman; a second volume followed the next year.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1735: Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while...

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1735

Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while following its predecessors in blaming prostitutes for lewdness and depravity, added the new idea that women were driven to prostitution out of economic need.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Late 1739: There was published, bearing the date of...

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Late 1739

There was published, bearing the date of 1740, The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies , commonly call'd Mother Ross. Taken from her own mouth, the story of a woman cross-dressing to be a soldier.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Easton, Fraser. “Plebeianizing the Female Soldier”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland, 15 Oct. 2010.

By October 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile, a novel of...

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By October 1762

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's Émile, a novel of education published in the earlier part of this year in French, had its first English translation as Emilius and Sophia.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
14 (1763): 250-70
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
xxii
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
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1768: Arthur Young published the first of his surveys...

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1768

Arthur Young published the first of his surveys of the state of the British countryside: A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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1796: Children's writer Lucy Peacock published...

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1796

Children's writer Lucy Peacock published Ambrose and Eleanor. Or, The Adventures of Two Children Deserted on an Uninhabited Island, translated and adapted from Ducray-Duménil 's Fanfan et Lolotte, 1788 (sometimes called Lolotte et Fanfan).
Rønning, Anne Birgitte. “Originality in Adaptation: Lucy Peacock’s Ambrose and Eleanor”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, p. 6.

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