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Adventure Fiction Writers: Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe

(1660-1731)
<In Neoclassical Period>
Adventure Fiction Writers
Fiction: a type of literature that describes imaginary people and events ,not real
Adventure: unusual ,exciting or dangerous journey.
Many factions representing different interests appeared in England. The literature of the age was at times dominated by these contending factions.
Enlightenment sprang into life.
The rise of the English novel and famous novelist.
The Historical Background
--after the revolution of 1688
The Enlightenment:the period in the 18th century when many writers and scientists began to argue that science and reasons were more important than religion and tradition.
The Enlightenment
The Rise of the English Novel
The novel is the most important gift of bourgeois, or capitalist, civilization to the world's imaginative culture.
Ralph Fox:
The Novel and the People
The Rise of the English Novel
The modern European novel began after the Renaissance,with Cervantes’s Don Quixote(1605-1615).The modern English novel began two centuries later in the 18th century.
The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achivement of 18th century English literature,which has given the world such novelists as Defoe, Swift, Richardson,Fielding,Smollett and lived in a period of rapid growth of capitalism.
"The eighteenth century was the golden age of the (English) novel. The novel of this period … spoke the truth about life with an promising courage." The novelists of this period understood that "the job of a novelist was to tell the truth about life as he saw it." This explains the achievement of the English novel in the 18th century.
The Rise of the English Novel
Daniel Defoe
(1660-1731)
Novelist
Pamphleteer
Journalist ,Merchant
Politician, Publicist
Adventure Fiction Writers: Daniel Defoe
Brief Introduction
Born into a middle class family in London.
1678-1683 traveled in man