最新笛福—英文简介

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His novels include: • The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe (1719) 鲁宾逊漂流记 the first and most famous novel the book which makes him immortal Father of English Novel Defoe gained enduring fame for this novel
• Social position
• Economy position
Life Experiences
(main things)
• 1660 born in London (son of a butcher) he received a good education in one of the best Dissenting school, but he gave up the idea of becoming a preacher.
Defoe’s Novels
Defoe started the writing of novels when he was nearly sixty years of age. It was the novel that built his reputation as a world-known writer.
• பைடு நூலகம் radical nonconformist(不信奉英国国教的新教教徒 ) in religion his puritan zeal for reform marks all this work account for the moralizing to be found everywhere.
Life Experiences
(main things)
• 1692 he became bankrupt, within 4years, he was doing well as the manager of the tile factory.
• 1701, The Trueborn Englishman –A Satire his best – known pamphlet
• 1678-1683 traveled in Spain, Italy, France and German as a merchant.
• 1688 joined William’s army and took great interest in the establishment of the new government.
笛福—英文简介
Adventure Fiction Writers 冒险小说家
Daniel Defoe
丹尼尔·笛福
Daniel Defoe
(1660—1731)
In Neoclassical Period
Rich
• Experiences • Works • Contributions
Vs. Poor
• A jack-of-all-trades: soldier, merchant, economist, politician, publicist, writer, as well as novelist.
• A journalist and a pamphleteer with a reporter’s eye for the picturesque and a newspaperman's instinct for “making a good story”
• 1703 he was arrested and pilloried(处以枷刑) • 1704 he found The Review and carried it to 1713 • 1719 published Robinson Crusoe • 1731 died
Brief Introduction
Theme
• The principle problem of the Enlightenment -influence of society on man’s nature – stands in the centre of all these novels.
• The writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment held that man is good and noble by nature but may
Other novels followed in quick succession:
• Captain Singleton (1720) 辛格顿船长 • Journal of the Plague Year (1722)大疫年日记 • Captain Jack (1722)杰克船长 • Moll Flanders (1722) 摩尔 弗兰德 • Roxana (1724) 罗克珊娜
succumb(屈服)to an evil environment. So did Defoe
in his novel. • In these novels the reader is taken from country
scenes to large cities, from the thieves’ den to the court of kings. And the readers draws the inevitable conclusion: there is no the other but that the former receives sympathy which the latter does not.
• Defoe was once in prison, and his prison experience, together with the further knowledge of criminals accounts for his stories of thieves and pirates.
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