Daniel Defoe Flashcards
When was Daniel Defoe born?
b.1660 d.1731
What poem did Defoe write in support of William of Orange when he was called a foreigner?
The True-Born Englishman (1701)
What work of Defoe’s led to his arrest for ‘seditious libel’?
The Shortest way with the Dissenters (1702) , or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church, a satire, written in the style of Tory publications that attacked dissenters.
When did Defoe write Hymn to the Pillory?
in 1703, when he was made to stand in the Pillory as punishment for writing the Shortest Way with the Dissenters.
What was Defoe’s periodical called?
The Review (1704-1713), a major influence on later periodicals such as The Tatler and The Spectator.
What is Defoe’s most popular didactic work?
The Family Instructor (1715)
When did Defoe publish Robinson Crusoe?
1719.
What author name did the first edition of Robinson Crusoe carry?
Robinson Crusoe, leading many people to believe that he was a real person and the author of the book.
What is the birth name of Robinson Crusoe?
Robinson Kreutznaer.
Whose story is thought to have inspired Robinson Crusoe?
the story of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish Castaway who lived in a pacific island for four years.
What book is generally considered the first English novel?
Robinson Crusoe.
Why was 1722 an important year for Defoe?
He published Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year and Colonel Jack.
What is A Journal of the Plague Year usually compared to?
Samuel Pepys’s first person account of the plague in his diary. While Pepys actually lived through the plague, Defoe was five when the plague occurred and wrote his journal by piecing many historical accounts together. Defoe’s is however considered a more detailed and systematic version.
What was Defoe’s last major work of fiction?
Roxana (1724)
