Defoe and Sterne

From: The Hudson Review | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

THESE EXCELLENT BIOGRAPHIES OF DEFOE AND STERNE tell the stories of two men in many ways fundamentally different, but at one in their determination to manipulate the rapidly shifting social worlds of the eighteenth century to their own advantage.' They both wrote fictions which helped to bring about radical changes in the forms of literature which predominated during the next two centuries. Robinson Crusoe and Tristram Shandy were both immensely popular with large readerships in England and abroad. Defoe wrote stories such as Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack and Roxana when prose fiction was ...

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