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Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe embarked on similar explorations. The teacher must also find ways to accommodate competing fictional impulses that emerged during the period--the diaristic accounts of Daniel Defoe, the romanticized intrigues of Eliza Haywood, and the Gothic nail-biters of Horace Walpole--as well as generic oddities like Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Samuel Johnson's Rasselas. Daniel Defoe made an observation that could apply to many public health interventions then and today, "This shutting up of houses was at first counted a very cruel and unchristian method . |
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Daniel Defoe - English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)