father of the historical novel :- Sir Walter Scott
England’s First Professional Female Author: Aphra Behn
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes : First European novel
Daniel Defoe- Born in 1660 in London
Defoe published his first novel, Robinson Crusoe, in 1719, when he was around 60 years old.
in 1722 with Moll Flanders, the story of a tough, streetwise heroine whose fortunes rise and fall dramatically .
Defoe died in London on April 24, 1731, of a fatal “lethargy
The term "Robinsonade" was coined to describe the genre of stories similar to Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is the true symbol of the British conquest
The idealized master-servant relationship between Crusoe and Friday
Crusoe represents the “enlightened European.” Friday is the “savage
In the 1850s it was still common to find people who forbid their families from reading novels
The foundations of early bourgeois realism were laid by Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift
By the end of the 19th century, artists and novelists were already becoming unsatisfied with realism
Compare: Édouard Manet, “Breakfast in the Studio” (Realist Art)
With: Picasso “Weeping Woman” (Modernist Art)
famous Guernica 1937 by Picasso