Lecture7DanielDefoe(1661-1731).pptVIP

Lecture 5 His personal life A jack-at-all trades, a writer, a Journalist and a pamphleteer. He knew prison life. His works Verses: Hymn to the Pillory The True English man Prose Works: The Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (p.190) Captain Singleton Duncan Campell Memoirs of a Cavalier Colonel Jack Moll Flanders Journal of the Plague Year History of the Devil in 1726 Robinson Crusoe About the story: Robinson Crusoe captain on the Island Juan Fernandez off the coast of Chile. Picaresque is from Spanish picaro’rogue’. The term is especially applied to a form of prose fiction originating in Spain in the 16th century, dealing with the adventures of rogues. When the term came into English literature it was not so strict. As used by English critics, a picaresque (of a style of fiction, treating of the adventures of rogues and vagabonds 以恶徒及流浪者之冒险事迹为题材的 ) narrative is an episodic story in which the hero is thrown out of, or has never possessed, a stable position in society, so that he is forced to seek his own fortune as chance and his enterprise may provide it for him. Such a hero or heroine is often daring and unscrupulous; he may be an individualist by choice, but he is likely to suffer from social injustice or at least misfortune. The first example of this type is Thomas Nashe’s Unfortunate Traveler, the others are Dofoe’s Moll Flanders, Fieding’s Janathan Wild the Great and so on. The novel consists of three volumes, among which only the first one is very popular. The second volume, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, being the Second and Last Part of His Life, was published in August of 1719. Twelve months later a sequel was published entitled Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of? Robinson Crusoe. This was a collection of moral essays. While the latter two books are essentially unknown, Robinson Crusoe has been published in hundreds of editions and scores of languages. Crusoe has been published in hundreds o