Homo economicus in Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe’ Robinson Crusoe takes an important place in the history of the English novel, because it was the first time that a continuous prose narrative had been written with the specific aim of creating the illusion of day-to-day living. Robinson Crusoe is very much a product of his age, the individualistic-minded eighteenth century. The Economic Individualism in Robinson Crusoe illustrates the attitudes off eighteenth […]