Презентация Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 «What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh онлайн

Содержание слайда: Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 «What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.»

Содержание слайда: English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist; the founder/father of the English novel. English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist; the founder/father of the English novel.

Содержание слайда: Daniel Defoe’s Life Born in 1660 as the son of James Foe, a butcher. In 1683/4, married Mary Tuffley and established himself as a hosiery merchant. Himself a dissenter, published pamphlets satirizing the oppression of dissenters; thus fined, imprisoned in 1703 from May to Nov. and pilloried. Failed in all the business he tried. Saved by Harley, a Tory politician; and employed as a secret agent between 1703 and 1704. In 1704, began the Review.

Содержание слайда: «Robinson Crusoe» Interesting facts The literary genre known as the Robinsonade was derived from the popularity of this book. Robinson Crusoe was so well-received that an entire genre of desert island survivalist fiction became popular at the time. It is believed that Defoe’s inspiration for the character Robinson Crusoe was Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who lived alone on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 to 1709. The 1986 novel Foe, written by Nobel-winning author J.M. Coetzee, is woven around the plot of Robinson Crusoe.

Содержание слайда: Many renowned authors mark Robinson Crusoe as inspirational for their own work including James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, and William Wordsworth. Many renowned authors mark Robinson Crusoe as inspirational for their own work including James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, and William Wordsworth. Robinson Crusoe’s original title was The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoques; Having been Cast Ashore by Shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but Himself, with An Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates.