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    A Study Guide for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
    A Study Guide for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
    A Study Guide for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
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    A Study Guide for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"

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    A Study Guide for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535832267
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      A Study Guide for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" - Gale

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      Robinson Crusoe

      Daniel Defoe

      1719

      Introduction

      Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published as a fictional memoir in 1719. It was so commercially successful that he quickly wrote a sequel. Realizing that fake autobiographies made a good profit, Defoe wrote four more first-person narratives before 1724. The best known are Moll Flanders (1722), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and The Fortunate Mistress, or Roxana (1724).

      Today Robinson Crusoe remains a popular adventure narrative. In fact, the book gave rise to the Robinsonade, adventure tales that rework the structural elements of Crusoe's island tale. Moreover, the character of Robinson Crusoe is recognized as a literary and cultural icon, like Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Faust; the story of a man stuck on a deserted island has become familiar to nearly everyone in the Western world.

      Author Biography

      Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in Cripplegate, just outside the walls of the City of London. His parents, James and Alice Foe, were Dissenters—Protestants who refused to accept the authority of the Anglican Church (also known as the Church of England).

      In 1670 Defoe's mother died and he was sent to boarding school. He attended Charles Morton's academy at Newington Green, where he received an excellent education and developed a taste for political radicalism.

      Defoe finished his studies at Morton in 1679 and entered the hosiery business. In 1684 he married Mary Tuffley, a wealthy young woman. He prospered in business and became a member of the Butcher's Company—one of several companies that controlled business in London. He also gained several influential friends in the government.

      Unfortunately, Defoe overextended his invest-ments—at one point he owed seventeen thousand pounds—and was sued eight times between 1688 and 1694, ending up in debtor's prison in 1692. However, King William III proved to be a true patron and by the late 1690s Defoe's fortunes were on the mend.

      His first important work, An Essay upon Projects (1697), proposed social improvement schemes; his first profitable work was a political poem satirizing xenophobia, The True-Born Englishman

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