Arguably the first English novel, Daniel Defoe’s prose romance Robinson Crusoe recounts the fictional adventures of the title character, an ambitious Englishman, through Crusoe’s first-person autobiographical narrative. In the formally titled The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,… Read More ›
Travel Literature
Travel Writing in Early America
In American history before the Revolutionary era, travel and exploration were naturally important activities; as a colonial outpost of Great Britain, the colonies on the East Coast had to be explored, and Americans also read the literature of travel and… Read More ›
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