I'm doing a project for my 11th grade English class on Daniel Defoe. I was assigned to write about the pamphlets he published throughout the years. But more importantly, I need to write about why he wrote the pamphlets, like what in his life caused him to write a specific pamphlet. I've done some searching but I couldn't find anything really useful. I know there are a couple English geniuses on this forum, could anyone point me in the right direction?
He was an early example of the modern novelist in that he saw literature in its various forms as an economic product and sociopolitical tool. I would be hesitant from my own studies - mostly of Robinson Crusoe and the metafictional Foe by J.M. Coetzee - to say that Defoe really had any strong political convictions; he rather publically defected from one side to the other either because of public opinion or profitable gain. He really was a prolific writer and pamphleteer but you have to remember that he was almost destitute for a long period of his life after his business ventures fell through.
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they wont let u use wiki as reference when writing an English paper especially since anyone can modify the page. But yeah google it... there is tons of shit out there use google scholar.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe#Pamphleteering_and_prison
Just use the sources that Wikipedia gives, then.blademaster wrote:
they wont let u use wiki as reference when writing an English paper especially since anyone can modify the page. But yeah google it... there is tons of shit out there use google scholar.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe#Pamphleteering_and_prison
Well anyone that would cite wiki in a scholarly work is an idiot to begin with. He wanted to be pointed in the write direction, so I linked him to a starting point.