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This was reflected in the novels of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, who in important ways began to write of unique individual lives and experiences lived in realistic, intersubjective ( the term is Husserl's, who did not come along until the 20th century ) environments.

There, he met one Mary Milliner ( or Mary Mollineaux ), a prostitute who began to teach Wild criminal ways and, according to Daniel Defoe, " brought him into her own gang, whether of thieves or whores, or of both, is not much material.

Defoe began his career with Charlton Athletic, joining their youth team at age fourteen, before moving to West Ham United aged sixteen, and rising through the ranks.

Defoe began the 2003 – 04 season with West Ham but a refusal to sign a new contract and disciplinary problems, including three sending offs, which saw him play only 22 games out of a possible 34, led to West Ham accepting an offer from Tottenham Hotspur for him in the January transfer window.

Defoe began Tottenham's FA Cup campaign with a crisply-taken brace of goals in the Third Round match at home to Charlton Athletic on 9 January 2011, Spurs winning 3 – 0, but in the following round they were defeated at Fulham.

Of particular importance to the development of the genre was that the Gothic writers used novelistic techniques and love, such as Defoe was using, rather than the literary style of the romance, and also began to use the landscape for purposes of expressing the characters ' moods.

In an early passage of A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe mentions " merry andrews " while describing the effects of the plague on London society: " All the plays and interludes which, after the manner of the French Court, had been set up, and began to increase among us, were forbid to act ; the gaming-tables, public dancing-rooms, and music-houses, which multiplied and began to debauch the manners of the people, were shut up and suppressed ; and the jack-puddings, merry-andrews, puppet-shows, rope-dancers, and such-like doings, which had bewitched the poor common people, shut up their shops, finding indeed no trade ; for the minds of the people were agitated with other things, and a kind of sadness and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common people.

As Daniel Defoe observed in 1697, " Now it is frequent to have armies of 50, 000 men of a side spend the whole campaign in dodging – or, as it is genteelly called – observing one another, and then march off into winter quarters.

Defoe however insisted that he would stay at Tottenham and fight for his place, saying " I'm really excited about the new season and the prospect of another campaign in Europe.

Due to appearances in Tottenham's third and fourth round ties Defoe found himself cup-tied for all the subsequent matches of Pompey's successful FA Cup 2007-08 campaign.

* Defoe ’ s Review and the Reform of Manners Movement.

Barbary corsairs are protagonists in Le pantere di Algeri ( the panthers of Algiers ) by Emilio Salgari and appear in a number of other famous novels, including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, The Sea Hawk and the Sword of Islam by Rafael Sabatini, The Algerine Captive by Royall Tyler, Master and Commander by Patrick O ' Brian, the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, The Walking Drum by Louis Lamour, Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting and Corsair by Clive Cussler.

He eventually published Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies, in which he compared the style and contents of A General History to Defoe's works, noting that the frequent meditations on morality are similar to Defoe's work, and that Defoe wrote several other works on pirates.

However, in 1988 scholars P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owen attacked the theory in The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe, in which they point out that there is no documentary evidence linking Johnson to Defoe, and that there are discrepancies between A General History and Defoe's other works.

Despite speculation linking him with other clubs, Defoe signed a new four-and-a-half year contract with Tottenham in April 2005.

Defoe committed a significant number of handball offences during the season, being penalised for the offence on nineteen occasions some nine more than any other player.

In pre-season, Defoe scored two goals, one coming in a 3 – 0 win against Orlando Pirates on 23 July, and the other in a 2 – 1 win against Athletic Bilbao at White Hart Lane on 6 August.

A list of the nearly 700 books in his library is preserved in the Bodleian Library while architecture and related crafts made up the bulk of his books ; other subjects covered included: antiquities, coins, and heraldry ; histories of England, Scotland and Rome and other nations ; literature included works by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe and Matthew Prior ; travel books including Egypt, the South Seas, Russia, Hungary, Lapland, Virginia, Ceylon and Abyssinia, missionary travels included China, Formosa, Guinea, Borneo and the East Indies ; books on religion included both Anglican and Roman Catholic works ; and even cookery books.

However, unlike Charles Davenant and the other radical Whig authors ( including Daniel Defoe ), it also did not begin with a desired outcome and work backward to deduce policy.

Kanoute regularly was unable to outshine Robbie Keane or Jermaine Defoe as much as he was expected to and, unlike his days at West Ham, he became a less prolific goalscorer and instead was involved in attacks by setting up various goals with runs at the defence and creating space for other attacking players.

After the Tories fell from power with the death of Queen Anne, Defoe continued doing intelligence work for the Whig government, writing " Tory " pamphlets that actually undermined the Tory point of view.

No fewer than 545 titles, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets and volumes have been ascribed to Defoe ( note: in their Critical Bibliography ( 1998 ), Furbank and Owens argue for the much smaller number of 276 published items ).

Defoe published over 560 books and pamphlets and is considered to be the founder of British journalism.

Living during the agitations for the union of England and Scotland, he took part as a Jacobite in the war of pamphlets inaugurated and sustained by prominent men on both sides of the Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh, 1707 ), and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

Defoe entered the world of business as a general merchant, dealing at different times in hosiery, general woollen goods and wine.

After a trial at the Old Bailey in front of the notoriously sadistic judge Salathiel Lovell, Defoe was found guilty.

Severin argues that since Pitman appears to have lived in the lodgings above the father's publishing house and since Defoe was a mercer in the area at the time, Defoe may have met Pitman and learned of his experiences as a castaway.

If he didn't meet Pitman, Severin points out that Defoe, upon submitting even a draft of a novel about a castaway to his publisher, would undoubtedly have learned about Pitman's book published by his father, especially since the interesting castaway had previously lodged with them at their former premises.

Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names.

* Daniel Defoe fiction at The Literature Network

* Life of Daniel Defoe at luminarium. org

Severin argues that since Pitman appears to have lived in the lodgings above the father's publishing house and that Defoe himself was a mercer in the area at the time, Defoe may have met Pitman in person and learned of his experiences first-hand, or possibly through submission of a draft.

" Crusoe " may have been taken from Timothy Cruso, a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth ( 1695 ), before dying at an early age – just eight years before Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe.

* Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 18px-text and audio at Ciff Ciaff

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

The castle at Barnard Castle William Wordsworth, Daniel Defoe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hilaire Belloc, Bill Bryson and the artist J M W Turner have also visited the town.

Some think it may have been built by John Defoe ( or DeVoet ), a Tory who was imprisoned in 1776, escaped, fought on the side of the British and Hessian forces at the Battle of Bennington, was captured, escaped again, and settled in Canada.

Defoe in fact did little except at the launch of the publication, intended as an essay-sheet rather than a newspaper.

Daniel Defoe stayed in Aylsham in 1732 and enjoyed a meal at the Black Boys Inn.

According to Jeremy Butterfield, " The first person we know of who made usage refer to language was Daniel Defoe, at the end of the seventeenth century ".

His harshest critic was Augustus Moore, who wrote " God help English literature when English people lay aside their Waverley novels, and the works of Defoe, Swift, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and even Charles Reade for the penny dreadfuls of Mr Haggard "; adding, " The man who could write ' he spoke to She ' can have no ear at all ".

Daniel Defoe visited Bradford in the early 18th century and commented: " They told me at Bradford on Avon that it was no extra-ordinary thing to have clothiers in that county worth £ 10, 000 to £ 40, 000 per man " ( equivalent to £ 1. 3M to £ 5. 3M in 2007 ).

Defoe gives an eye-witness account of a lead miner's family and of the miner himself at work.

* The London Fictions website looks at commanding London novels from Defoe to the present day