While Daniel Defoe’s most loved book is still Robinson Crusoe (1719) due to its appeal to young readers, Moll Flanders is considered by critics his most artful. Although it features the same hyperbole used in Robinson Crusoe, with Moll taking… Read More ›
An example of Newgate fiction, in which writers based novels on true criminal accounts, Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Eugene Aram established him as the most popular novelist of England during the same year Sir Walter Scott, to whom Bulwer-Lytton dedicated the book’s… Read More ›
Didactic literature, from the Greek didaktikos, or skillful in teaching, refers to literature that overtly demonstrates a truth or offers a lesson to readers. Not a subtle approach, didacticism delivers a specific and pointed message and was present in the… Read More ›
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