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.

#author #writer #fiction #DanielDefoe @bookstadon

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.

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

Literarischer #5Mai

„Es ist nie zu spät, weise zu sein.“

#DanielDefoe Tod 1731

Literarischer #25April

„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.“

#DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe 1. Auflage erscheint 1719

#IntrovertHangover 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 #DanielDefoe's #RobinsonCrusoe

Any other suggestions? 😁

#IntrovertHangover 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 #DanielDefoe's #RobinsonCrusoe

Any other suggestions? 😁https://giphy.com/gifs/parksandrec-parks-and-recreation-rec-s5e11-bEzCWDPWKwyowuzTCu

Hi, #18cmastodon! #Introduction 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 #EighteenthCenturyNovel
#DanielDefoe
#AphraBehn #NarrativeStudies
#TraumaFiction
#MoralInjury
#PerpetratorTrauma
#Focalization
#Traumatic Amnesia

Would love to connect & reconnect with #18c scholars!

Introduction: I have written about and am still interested in #MaryToft #JonathanSwift #AlexanderPope #DanielDefoe #WilliamByrdII #IndenturedServitude #Slavery. 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 #Berkeley, where I am raising an extraordinarily traumatized but lovable dog.

Le “Illusioni perdute” nella ‘società dello spettacolo’ https://www.carmillaonline.com/2022/01/09/le-illusioni-perdute-nella-societa-dello-spettacolo/ #letteraturaecinema #GerardDepardieu #HonorédeBalzac #XavierGiannoli #GeorgesPoulet #GianniCelati #GyörgyLukács #DanielDefoe #giornalismo #Letteratura #Cinema&tv #PaoloLago #romanzo