EN 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe
18 May 2016
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Was a committed royalist (on the side of bringing charles the second back) and also worked for him as a spy. It is a work of fiction that suggests the author had some first hand knowledge of the place. Behn is speaking from experience through the way she writes in the novel and some of the things she says like i learned this from . Was credited with writing the first modern novel (robinson crusoe 1719) Novella an extended version of a short story. A genre, a short novel often characterized by imagistic intensity. Novel an extremely flexible genre in both form and subject matter. A novel doesn"t have to deal with one specific subject mater. Usually written in prose and has a certain expectation for length (more longer like 80 pages and above or so). There tends to be a lot of material detail. They can have more than one narrative to make the reader see from different perspectives.
