Daniel Defoe

truth, thus making his works come alive and appear to be a matter of

personal recollection.

Daniel Defoe is the founder of the English novel. “ [Defoe]…was one of the germinal minds in political and economical thought, a defender of religious toleration, and an opponent of the evils of human slavery…” (Moore, 7). Defoe reflects his diverse experiences in many countries and in many lifestyles. Besides being a brilliant journalist and novelist, Defoe was a prolific author, producing more than 500 books, pamphlets, and tracts. Defoe was a religious man who stood up for the Christian code of ethics. He spent a great deal of his life trying to get men to act more morally, to abandon prejudices, and to right injustices. Defoe’s most effective writing style was to give as much precise detail so that the reader could not decipher whether the eve

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People were so afraid to touch something that might have been in contact with someone else. Approximately 15,000 families went bankrupt because of these fines. Backshieder states, “…it might have been more had he not been committed to the Fleet Prison” (58). Selkirk was a Scottish sailor who had a dispute with the captain of the ship. Defoe crated a style unheard of at the time. “Eighteen-century diagnoses were crude and casual” (Freeman, 293). When his shipments did not come in he had no way of repaying those intended. “…Defoe could therefore expect his readers to be interested in the very detailed descriptions of the economic life which comprise such an important and memorable part of his narrative” (Kalm, 72). Defoe uses explicit detail to tell Moll’s story. The Great Fire hit on September 2, 1666. “Defoe’s generation saw its potential as shapers of opinion, and Defoe would write more of such pamphlets than anyone else” (Backshieder, 44). Because of the Defoe’s choice of religion, Daniel was alienated from attending college. Captured soon after, he was sentenced on July 9, 1703, to stand three times in the pillory. On January 1, 1684, Daniel and Mary got married.

After 1715, Defoe turned to a variety of fictional forms, including moral dialogues, such as the Family Instructor, and the fictitious memoirs, such as The History of the Wars of Charles XII.

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