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The coffee houses became were fashionable places for the chattering classes to meet, conduct business, gossip, exchange ideas and debate the news of the day. Unlike public houses, no alcohol was served and women were excluded. Each coffeehouse had a particular clientele, usually defined by occupation, interest or attitude,such as traders and merchants, poets and authors, and men of fashion and leisure. -
Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 into a family of dissenters.
He was the father of the English novel.
His novels are autobiographies. There is always only one hero (Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Roxana...) -
He was born in Dublin, he was a well educated man and he wrote satirical works and pamphlets. Swift is without doubt one of the most controversial among great English writers -
Sir William Temple encouraged him to write his first satirical works
The Battle of the books: about the merits of ancient and modern literature
A tale of a Tub: about the contending religious parties of the day -
The Review was his best work
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Robinson Crusoe was the first novel of Defoe.
Crusoe at the age of 19 decides to travel arounf the world, but during this journey he is shipwrecked on a desert island... -
Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe names the man Friday, with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on that day. -
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The novel consists of 4 books and is about the travels of the main character, Gulliver, a typical European man. He reaches different lands and islands with their own population. This work has been widely read as a tale for children but also as a political allegory of Swift’s time. -
