MikeDunnAuthor · @MikeDunnAuthor
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Mike’s Fun Facts: Daniel Defoe, author of “Robinson Crusoe,” once tried to make a living selling perfume made from the secretions of cats’ butts.

@bookstadon

#author #writer #fiction #DanielDefoe

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MikeDunnAuthor · @MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.

@bookstadon

#censorship #prison #writing #author #fiction #DanielDefoe #libel

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· @itbeobachter
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Literarischer

„Es ist nie zu spät, weise zu sein.“

Tod 1731

#5Mai #DanielDefoe

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· @itbeobachter
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Literarischer

„So sehen wir nie die wahren Vorteile unseres Zustandes, ehe wir die entgegenstehenden Nachteile erfahren haben; wir lernen den Wert der Dinge erst dann kennen, wenn wir sie verloren haben.“

1. Auflage erscheint 1719

#25april #DanielDefoe #robinsoncrusoe

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Fahime Serhatti · @fahime
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is the feeling of exhaustion after spending too much time interacting with others. As an introvert, I also experience it after reading novels with lots of characters.

The solution is reading novels with minimum characters like 's

Any other suggestions? 😁

#introverthangover #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe

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Fahime Serhatti · @fahime
51 followers · 13 posts · Server c18.masto.host

is the feeling of exhaustion after spending too much time interacting with others. As an introvert, I also experience it after reading novels with lots of characters.

The solution is reading novels with minimum characters like 's

Any other suggestions? 😁giphy.com/gifs/parksandrec-par

#introverthangover #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe

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Fahime Serhatti · @fahime
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Hi, ! time.

PhD in English Literature
Postdoctoral researcher at Middle East Technical University, Turkey
An adjunct at Baskent University, Turkey.

Working on trauma and moral injury in Early English Novels

My interest areas are






Amnesia

Would love to connect & reconnect with scholars!

#18cmastodon #introduction #eighteenthcenturynovel #DanielDefoe #aphrabehn #narrativestudies #traumafiction #moralinjury #perpetratortrauma #focalization #traumatic #18C

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Dennis Todd · @todd
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Introduction: I have written about and am still interested in . I recently finished a book ms. on William Byrd and slavery in early Virginia that will come out in June. Taught over thirty years at Georgetown University but now retired and living in , where I am raising an extraordinarily traumatized but lovable dog.

#MaryToft #JonathanSwift #AlexanderPope #DanielDefoe #WilliamByrdII #IndenturedServitude #slavery #berkeley

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