DanielDefoe(1660-1731)分析.pptVIP

Daniel Defoe （1660-1731） Teaching objectives: knowing Daniel Defoe’s life experience, literary career, his works and style Teaching contents: 1.Life and literary career 2. Robinson Crusoe 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The plot 2.3 The theme 3. Style of his novels 1. Life and literary career Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was born in London in a butchers family. Like Pope, he never went to university, but he received a good education in one of the best Dissenting academies. His father had wished him to be a clergyman, but he found himself interested in business. Defoe started as a small merchant and all his life his business underwent many ups and downs, and yet he was never beaten. His quick mind, abundant energy and never-failing enthusiasm always brought him back on his feet after a fall. When he died in 1731, he left his wife and daughters fairly well provided. Defoe also had a zest for politics. He wrote quite a number of pamphlets on the current political issues. His The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) brought him into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory, while his The True-born Englishman (1701) won him friendship from the king. He worked, at different times, as a government agent, both for the Whigs and the Tories, and was among the best informed political and economic pamphleteers of the time. In 1704, he founded The Review, a political, literary periodical and carried it to 1713. He wrote and edited every issue himself. It is a real wonder that such a busy man as Defoe would have found time for literary creation. The fact is that, at the age of nearly 60, he started his first novel Robinson Crusoe, which was an immediate success. In the following years, he wrote four other novels: Captain Singleton (1720), Moll Flanders (1722), Colonel Jack (1722) and Roxana (1724),. Daniel Defoe is the first important English novelist and a versatile writer. His other major works include The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702; Hymn to the Pillory（1