Britain in Daniel Defoe's Travel Writing

Abstract

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe the main features of travel literature focusing on its development in the 18th century along with providing information about cultural and social changes that took place in this century. The analytical part of this paper focuses on how and to which extent the Enlightenment and its prominent thoughts and values influenced Daniel Defoe's writing of A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-1727).