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Defoe, Daniel
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Defoe, Daniel (
c.1660–1731). Prolific English writer. Educated at a dissenting academy, Defoe was pardoned for fighting for
Monmouth, and gaoled for bankruptcy in 1692, before becoming William III's unofficial apologist in the best‐selling
True‐Born Englishman (1701). Imprisoned and pilloried for seditious libel for his satire on high‐church bigotry,
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), Defoe was recruited as a propagandist by Robert
Harley. Having finally made his peace with the Whigs, Defoe published
Robinson Crusoe (1719), the first of a series of fictional autobiographies, including
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722),
Moll Flanders (1722), and
Roxana (1724).
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Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...records that Samuel Johnson had read Daniel Defoe and "allowed a considerable share...The comment points to a truth about Defoe: a Protestant through and through...and refreshing biography, Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising...
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The Life of Daniel Defoe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Life of Daniel Defoe. By JOHN RICHETTI. Malden: Blackwell...19529-0. Writing a biography of Daniel Defoe is a doomed quest: yet John Richetti...almost nothing is known or certain about [Defoe's] inner life except what he chose...
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Dating the Devil: Daniel Defoe's Roxana and The Political History of the Devil.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; In 1724 Daniel Defoe published his last novel, Roxana...horned and cloven-footed devil" (Daniel Defoe 659), the Devil was an undeniable reality for Defoe and an indispensable element in his...
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DANIEL DEFOE: THE LIFE AND STRANGE, SURPRISING ADVENTURES.(Review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; DANIEL DEFOE: THE LIFE AND STRANGE, SURPRISING ADVENTURES...THE BEST PHYSICAL description of Daniel Defoe comes to us, fittingly, from a wanted...spawned it, neatly encapsulate much of Defoe's life: a writer on the lam, a lover...
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A Sermon by the "Queen of Whores".(Daniel Defoe's 'Roxana')(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Daniel Defoe's Roxana seems to resist interpretation...logic": "We cannot know exactly what Defoe thought he was doing in this enigmatic novel...was his last. As one critic puts it, 'Defoe stopped when he reached the end...
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Books: Desperate Daniel Behind Daniel Defoe's prolific writings lay equally extensive debts, says Jonathan Bate
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/27/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe by Richard West HarperCollins...pen alone, as Daniel Defoe did after the early failure...Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe is the first popular...This is a pity, since Defoe was deeply involved in...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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THE UNION SPY; Famous as author of Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe also led a dangerous double life as a secret agent in Scotland, playing a vital role in shaping her political destiny.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/28/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: JEREMY HODGES THE name was Defoe, Daniel Defoe... On Her Majesty's Secret Service, working deep...future author of Robinson Crusoe or Moll Flanders. When Defoe arrived in the capital at the end of 1706, it was a...
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All aboard the ark of possibility; or Robinson Crusoe returns from Mars as a small-footprint, multi-channel indeterminacy machine. (fictional character of English novelist Daniel Defoe)(Making Genre: Studies in the Novel or Something Like It, 1684-1762)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe generated two...the-minute critical literature on Defoe, yet most of it is aimed at his...being more concerned with applauding Defoe' s minorities and women. Unexpectedly...
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The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/22/2009; 554 words
; The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe. John Richetti, editor. Cambridge...life and works. To Prof. Richetti, Defoe is 'arguably the most important writer...After this the contributors look at: Defoe's political and religious journalism...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Myths behind Crusoe legend; The Life And Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe (Harper/Coll ins pounds 20).(Monday Books)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 9/22/1997; 583 words
; ...as a child and pictured the writer Daniel Defoe as a nature-loving writer of adventure...your illusions shattered. Daniel Defoe emerges from the pages of Richard...complex and contradictory personality. Defoe was a remarkable man who had fought...
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Defoe, Daniel
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Daniel Defoe Born: 1660 London, England Died: April...English writer, journalist, and poet Daniel Defoe was the first of the great eighteenth...the birth and early childhood of Daniel Defoe, as no baptism record exists for him...
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Defoe, Daniel (1660–1731)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
DEFOE, DANIEL (1660 – 1731) DEFOE, DANIEL (1660 – 1731), English journalist, economist...often considered to be the first English novelist. Daniel Defoe wrote approximately 560 books, pamphlets, and journal articles...
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Daniel Defoe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Daniel Defoe The English novelist, journalist, poet, and government agent Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote more than 500 books...18th-century English novelists. Daniel Defoe was the son of a dissenting London tallow...
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DEFOE, Daniel
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
DEFOE, Daniel [1660?–1731]. Sometimes De Foe , English journalist and...have introduc'd’. Like other proposals for such an academy, Defoe's concentrated on the literary language, and like them had no practical...
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Baker, Henry
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the deaf attracted the interest of Daniel Defoe, one of whose early novels, The...deaf conjurer. This book shows that Defoe was familiar with the methods for...used by John Wallis. Baker married Defoe ’ s youngest daughter...
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