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Part Four 18th Century English Novel;Q2: Why and how did the novel come into being in the 18th Century? Modern English novel, as a social product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the bourgeois or middle class; the rapid growth of a large middle-class reading public and increased demand for reading materials ;Representatives of this period:;ⅰ Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) ⒈ Life (p171) The son of a butcher Jack-of-all-trades: English novelist, pamphleteer, merchant and journalist; the founder of the English novel ,puritan Defoe as a journalist: it makes his reporting vivid and credible by a skilful use of circumstantial detail; possess a particular faculty of creative imagination; he concerns about working class;⒉ Defoe’s works: Pamphlets and poems: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702)《铲除新教徒的捷径》-supporting the claims of free churches Hymn to the Pillory (1703)《木枷颂》 (hymn: a song of praise) ;Defoe in the pillory;Novels:(since 60 years old） Robinson Crusoe (1719)〈鲁滨逊漂流记〉 Captain Singleton (1720)〈辛格顿船长〉 Moll Flanders (1722)〈摩尔弗兰德斯〉 A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) 〈大疫年的回忆〉 Colonel Jack (1722) 〈杰克上校〉 Memoirs of Cavalier (1724) 〈一个骑士的回忆录〉;⒊ Robinson Crusoe: it heads the list of modern fiction;a The novel is based on the real fact. It was based partly on the memoirs of voyagers and castaways, such as Alexander Selkirk, who went to sea and was put ashore at his own request on an uninhabited island in the Pacific for 5 years.（英格兰水手亚历山大塞尔格） b The story(P173-176);c Theme: The development of Robinson Crusoe : from a na?ve and artless youth into a clever and hardened man; The realistic record of the successful struggle of Robinson alone against the pitiless forces of nature on the island The hard struggle against nature and makes him bend before his will ;d The Character of Robinson Crusoe: representative of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stages of its deve