ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adventure Fiction, King Power, The Overtones
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1780-1900 about 100 abridged versions it was very popular with kids in both versions. Defoe had a colorful life a desenter on one hand and heavily invested in protestant theology made lots of money and was very flamboyant. Shifting genres from fairy tale to novel defoe is one of the fathers of novels. Realism vs romance try to show that which could be experienced by us. Truth status novelists where keen to stress that they were not escapism and they were true to everyday life moira talks about spending too much time in the unreal life. The editor believes the thing to be a just history of fact, neither is ther any appearance of fiction to it early claim from novelists that they are fact and are history. Alexander selkirk marooned in south seas for 4 years robinson is stuck for 20 years instead the action is also moved from pacific to caribbean.
