The Enlightenment literature and Robinson Crusoe
Literature became more and more available to people during the 18th century due to the new invention, the Goodman press. Newspapers were very popular because they were cheap and they contained a lot of information.
Most literature was non-fiction, it wasn't based on the imagination of the author. The aim of writings of the time was to instruct and enlighten, and most of all, get people to think. It was believed that reason and fact show life as it is, while imagination and non-fiction tell how people hope or fear reality to be.
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