Archipelagos of the English Novel: Bridging the Islands of Haywood and Defoe

Abstract

This paper introduces the works of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood in a comparative manner while it examines each author’s role in the development of the English Novel during the eighteenth century and its legacy. To establish a point of contact between these two very different narrative styles, the paper focuses on the connection between body, writing, and control, and the dissimilar ways in which both authors convey bodily experience by means of narrative.