【笛福】鲁滨逊漂流记 Robinson_Crusoe [牛津版]

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1、’ROBINSONCRUSOEDD(–)wasborninLondon,thethirdchildofJamesFoe,atallowchandler,andhiswifeAlice.HeattendedCharlesMorton’sdissentingacademyinNewingtonGreenbeforeestablishinghimselfasahosierandgeneralmerchantinCornhill,andmarriedMaryTuffleyin.Ayearlaterhejo

2、inedtheDukeofMonmouth’sdisastrousrebellionagainstJamesII,andwasluckytoescapethe‘BloodyAssizes’followingMonmouth’sdefeatatSedgemoor.Persistentoverinvestmentprecipitatedhisbankruptcyin,afterwhichheturnedtowriting.Defoe’sfirstgreatsuccesscamewithhissatiricalpoemTheTrue-BornEnglishman()

3、.TheShortestWaywiththeDissenters(),anaudaciousparodyofHighAnglicanextremism,broughthimachargeofseditiouslibelandhewasbrieflyimprisoned.Defoewasemployedbysuccessiveministriesasapolemicistuntilabout,andcontinuedtowriteprolificallythereafterinarangeoffieldsincludingpolitics,economics,and

4、religion.Betweenand,Defoeproducedthepioneeringfictionalnarrativesonwhichhisreputationhascometorest.ThefirstpartofRobinsonCrusoewaspublishedonApril,withasequelinAugust.Athirdpart,SeriousReflections,followedin,inwhichyearMemoirsofaCavalierandCaptainSingletonwerealsopub-lished.

5、MollFlanders,ColonelJack,andAJournalofthePlagueYearappearedinandRoxanain,tobefollowedbyfurthermajorworksofnon-fiction,includingATourthro’theWholeIslandofGreatBritain(–)andTheCompleteEnglishTradesman(–).DefoediedfollowingastrokeonAprilwhileinhidingfromapersistentcredi

6、tor.HeisburiedinBunhillFields.TKisChancellorJackmanProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofTorontoandaSupernumeraryFellowofStAnne’sCollege,Oxford.HisbooksincludeRichardson’sClarissaandtheEighteenth-CenturyReader(Cambridge,),Sterne,theModerns,andtheNovel(Oxford,),andTheCambridg

7、eCompaniontoEnglishLiteraturefromto,co-editedwithJonMee(Cambridge,).JKhaspublishedwidelyonDefoe,voyagenarrative,andrelatedtopics,andservesasacouncilmemberoftheHakluytSociety.HeisSeniorResearchFellowandLecturerinEnglishatWorcesterCollege,Oxf