AUTHORS 1700 CENTURY
DANIEL DEFOE (1660- 1731)
1660: Born into a family of dissenters, studied modern languages, economics and geography
Began writing Whig papers: the review, his greatest archievement, arrested and imprisoned
Denied his whig ideas because spy for the new gouvernment, began writing novels around the age of 60
Died in 1731
(WORKS)
1719- robinson cruseo
1722- a journal of the plague year, moll flanders
1724- roxana
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667- 1745)
One of the greatest writers of the 18th century, He wanted to cure society’s ills with humor
He had a dual identity: born in 1667 in ireland to english parents, died in 1745 in ireland
He spend of is life in ireland devoted to irish affairs but always considered himself english and a tory
(WORKS)
1697- the battle of the book
1704- the tale of a tub
1726- gulliver’s travels
SAMUEL RICHARDSON (1689- 1761)
Not rich family, started to write novels when was about fifty, wanted to be a clergyman but became a
printer
(WORKS)
1740/42- Pamela or virtue rewarded
1747/48- clarissa
1754- the history of sir charles grandison
HENRY FIELDING (1707- 1754)
Aristocratic family, he was a lawyer
(WORKS)
The history and adventures of joseph andrews, amelia
