1. Daniel Defoe ( ) *

2. Early Life and Education
He was born in London in a Puritan family
He was educated at one of the best
Dissenting Academies
He changed a lot of jobs
His political inclinations changed according
to hopes and achievements * *

3. The Novelist Robinson Crusoe, 1719 Moll Flanders, 1722
Captain Singleton, 1720
A Journal of the Plague Year, 1722
Memoirs of a Cavalier, 1724 * *

4. The Father of Modern Journalism
He wrote almost exclusively in prose
Essays, pamphlets and travel books
Articles for newspapers and magazines
1704  The Review * *

5. Robinson Crusoe It is the first English novel
It has a first-person narrator  fake autobiography
Places are described in detail
Time is accounted for in a precise manner
Possible source  A Cruising Voyage Round the World
Robinson is the celebration of the English mercantile hero * *

6. Robinson & Friday He is the archetype of thecolonialist
Robinson and Friday  modern colonialism:
Name giving
European clothes
European language
New religion
Technical superiority * *

7. The Story Robinson goes to sea despite his father’s advice
During one of his trips he is shipwrecked on a desert island
Gradually he manages to live a comfortable life
He rescues Friday, the prisoner of a group of Indians
The two live together on the island: Robinson is the master, Friday is his servant
Robison is rescued by a ship and sails back to England * *

8. Moll Flanders A fictitious autobiography She is the personification
of the modern woman
The happy ending shows Defoe’s
didactic and moral concern * *

9. The Story An abandoned child, born in Newgate prison
She realizes that to exploit her beauty and intelligence is the chance to make her way in the world
She marries several times
She goes to jail and is sentenced to the penal colony of Virginia
She becomes a rich and respectable woman * *