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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner"
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Date: 1719
"There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in View, or be it some Object, though not in View, yet render'd present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager Embrac...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)