ENGL 1411 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Making Money, Sarcasm, A Modest Proposal
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Satire: using mockey as a means to incite change. Knows when something is a bad idea, does it anyway. Viz (short for latin phrase) - videlicet: in other words . Originally foe changed to defoe, son of a butcher. Best known for robinson crusoe (first novel) First novelist who wanted to bring underground london to light (wrote about the most despicable characters of london) People getting into an environment beyond their control trying to survive. Robinson crusoe: first novel as a novel ever written. Trader who was lost for 4 years. Defoe supposedly based novel off alexander"s story. En route to north africa to get more slaves. What happened in sallee (modern day morocco) Gets captured and taken as a slave as he was going to africa from london. He and xury are on the boat to london from africa (after first voyage to guinea) Left for adventure but ends up living an honest life.
