¡Descarga robinson crusoe y más Apuntes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe was born in London on September 30th, 1660. Defoe was son of a modest butcher, James Foe, and his wife, Mary Foe, who died when he was a child. As we can see his real surname was Foe, he added the “De-” in 1695. He studied in Charles Morton Academy in order to become a Presbyterian clergyman, but eventually rejected the idea to work in the textile trade. Thanks to that, he travelled a lot so he visited European countries as Spain, Italy, Germany or France. In 1884 he got married with Mary Tuffley, whit whom he had seven children. Defoe was very interested in politics, in 1685 he supported the Duke of Monmouth riot against Jacob II. This riot did not have the results they expected therefore, it affected to Defoe social live. In 1692 his busines fall so Defoe is in bankruptcy. Later, he supported the ascension of William III of Orange and he helps him in his government. Now is when Defoe gets interested in state matters, he writes several assays, pamphlets and satirical texts, for which he was finally jailed in 1703. Shortly after that, he is freed and he started to work as journalist in “The Review” newspaper. From 1714 on, he becomes a secret agent to George I while he is working in the "Mist's Weekly Journal". The adventure novel The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) is his most popular work, inspired by the adventures of sailor Alexander Selkirk, but Defoe also wrote other books of interest as Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720), Moll Flanders (1722), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), or Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724). Daniel Defoe died on April 26th, 1731, when he was seventy. The artistic and literary development of the eighteenth century has traditionally been seen as a succession of styles ranging from the Baroque to Neoclassicism, through the Rococo, in the middle of both, and and without forgetting the glimpses of some Preromanticism. The novel managed to finish in the eighteenth century the revival begun in the previous century, settling in Britain as the greatest art form. Within it there are several styles: didactic, bourgeois philosophical and picaresque. The didactic production reaches its peak in The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), with which Defoe soon gained a lot of popularity. We can place this novel made by Defoe in the age when the classical spirit of English literature reached its peak point. We are in the Age of Enlightenment and Reason, where Defoe's novel is presented as the epitome about the power of adversity and nature. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was written in 1719, when Romanticism was rising in some European countries. This movement represents imagination, subjectivity, the freedom of thought and expression and the idealization of nature. The works of this times show anarchism, nature, passion and exoticism, we can see in Robinson Crusoe all of them.
