Note in lingua inglese sulla vita e le opere principali dei tre celebri scrittori (11 pagine formato doc)
Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 into a family of Protestant sect which refused the authority of the Church of England.
His father wanted a religious career for him, but he began working an apprentice.
Defoe suffered two bankruptcies. He started to write in Whig papers; like journalist his greatest achievement was The Review.
He became famous, but in the reign of Queen Anne he was arrested, tried and imprisoned.
Then he denied his Whigs ideals, and when was sixty began to write novel which were very successful. In 1719 he published hid first novel, Robinson Crusoe, in the 1722 he published Moll Flanders, his last novel was Roxana.
So he could afford a comfortable standard of life, but he dead in 1731.
Structure of the novel
Defoe's long narrative are autobiographices pretend to be true stories through the autobiographical details and memories provided by the protagonist. The structure of the novel is characterized by series of episodes and adventures held togheter by the unifying presence of a single hero. The lack of coherent plot is due to the fact that Defor neither planned nor revised his work. Defoe's method of retrospective first- person narration, and the autor's point of view mainly coincides whit the main characters.
Characterisation
The character usually appear in physically or socially isolation. Defoe is regarded like father of English novel because he used a narrative technique was original and became the basis for the development of the realistic novel.
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