4.4 英国文学导读Defoe.pdf

Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) • Defoe: hard-working, ingenious, liberal in mind, advanced in opinion, diligent, self- reliant, busy, speculative and active 1. Life and Career (1) Only secondary education (2) A merchant (3) Suffered bankruptcies and pillory punishment (4) Fully engaged in politics (5) A satirical poet and a pamphleteer “The True-born Englishman ” 《纯血统的英国人》 “The Shortest Way with the Dissenters ” 《铲除新教徒的 捷径》 “Hymn to Pillory ” 《木枷颂》 (6) A journalist : editing The Review His novels Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Captain Singleton Journal of the Plague year 《大疫年的回忆》 Colonel Jack Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress有缘学习更 多+谓ygd3076考证资料 Main ideas of his novles • the hero or heroine from the lower class • accumulating and securing wealth, and becoming a middle class at the end of the story through mercantile spirit and formidable fortitude • finding spiritual salvation for their early criminal or immoral life features • Defoe’s novels attained a high level of realism and authenticity. • Defoe adopted the autobiographic form, the first person narration, and journalistic style by using specific time and space. • His language is plain, smooth, direct and almost colloquial but never coarse.