英语专业毕业论文_CHAPTER ONE THE INTRODUCTION OF DANIEL DEFOE AND HIS NOVEL.docVIP

CHAPTER ONE THE INTRODUCTION OF DANIEL DEFOE AND HIS NOVEL 1.1 A Brief Biography Of Defoe Daniel Defoe(1660?1737),the author of Robinson Crusoe, was thought by many to be the first true novelist in English literature. He was born in London, the SOB of a Presbyterian butcher. Although he did not go to the university, Defoe received a good education in one of the best Dissenting academies. Against his father’s will of becoming a preacher ,he became a hosier merchant later and did much commercial traveling in Spain, France, Holland and Italy, and through large sections of England. He was very go