Daniel defoe biography pdf ppt

  • Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
  • The adventures of a woman who becomes a thief and a prostitute to survive but finally leads a respectable life.
  • Daniel Defoe was an English writer born in the 17th century near London.

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    Daniel Defoe

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    Daniel Defoe was an English novelist born in who is considered the founder of the modern novel. He wrote seven major novels between , most notably Robinson Crusoe. Defoe drew on various literary traditions for his novels, including travel narratives, spiritual autobiographies, and criminal biographies. His novels were innovative in their use of formal realism, psychological characterization, and föredrag of individual experience. Robinson Crusoe in particular came to symbolisera the rise of the European colonial merchant class. Moll Flanders also focused on the fortunes and misfortunes of its picaresque protagonist. Defoe established conventions for the novel that emphasized verisimilitud and treating fiction as fact.

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    Daniel Defoe was an English novelist born inom

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    Daniel Defoe: Life, Works, and Legacy

  • Daniel Defoe()Father of English Novel

  • Outline of the lecture • Defoe’s life and his literary career • Close reading: Selected chapter • On characterization of Robinson Crusoe • On point of view • On theme • Term: realism • Element of novel

  • Memorial to "Daniel Defoe", Bunhill Fields, City Road, London.

  • I Defoe’s Life and literary Career • Born in London as a son of a butcher • He became a hosier after schooling and traveled a lot in the Continent. • Being a merchant, he experienced ups and downs in his business. • The pamphlet Hymn to the Pillory made him a hero in and marked a turning point in his literary career.

  • He started The Review, a political and literary magazine in prison. • As his release, he worked as a journalist and pamphleteer. • Valuable experience to cultivate his abilities: 1) loved short, crisp, plain sentences; 2) Capacity for observing, grouping and memorizing details 3) Skills in use of ci

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    Daniel Defoe

  • 1. DANIEL DEFOE

  • 3. Early Life  Born to James and Alice Foe of London in  James Foe was a butcher.  Defoe studied at Charles Morton's Academy in London.  Defoe married Mary Tuffley in , the daughter of a London merchant  He was possibly a merchant in Spain from to  Defoe was part of the Duke of Monmouth‟s failed rebellion against King James II, a Catholic king.

  • 4. EDUCATION  Daniel was unable to attend such traditional and prestigious schools as Oxford and Cambridge.  Defoe's education began in the Rev. James Fisher's school in Dorking, and later, at about the age of fourteen, he was enrolled in the Dissenting academy in Newington Green.

  • 5. Writing Career  Defoe began writing anonymously in the s.  He mostly wrote political essays.  Defoe‟s first success came in the form of a satire, „The True-Born Englishman‟ in  Defoe was imprisoned in for his satire, “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”, an essay in which he uses an ironic voice
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