Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - Robinson Crusoe 1719 by GIULIANA GALBIATI https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk en-us 2021-10-24 13:38:37 UTC 2025-11-26 16:33:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4dc.png giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839256534 2021-10-24 13:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839256534 1 born Daniel Foe in 1660 (Restoration year) into a family of Dissenters. He studied at a Dissenting academy (not a traditional university, since Dissenters were barred from them). His father wanted a religious career for him giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839257660 2021-10-24 13:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839257660 2 Dissenter: a Protestant sect which refused the authority of the Church of England and criticized its financial connections with the government. A strong connection with Puritanism giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839259343 2021-10-24 13:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839259343 3 At first he became a merchant, but he went bankrupt (several times during all his life) giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839266969 2021-10-24 13:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839266969 4 He became politically active (as a Whig) under Charles II. He was involved in a failed rebellion against the Catholic James II, but he managed to escape giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839270301 2021-10-24 13:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839270301 5 Under the joint monarchs (Glorious Revolution 1688) he started his writing career as a political essayist and pamphleteer and became a spy for King William giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839277313 2021-10-24 13:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839277313 6 He went through several financial problems. When Anne became queen, Dissenters were not allowed to participate to political debate any longer. He was arrested and sentenced to the pillory for criticizing the Queen. giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839286283 2021-10-24 13:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839286283 7 in order to be freed, he denied his Whig ideas. When he was released he returned to his career as a secret agent and started a new career as a journalist, with The Review (1704-1713) giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839291056 2021-10-24 14:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839291056 8 When he was 60, he started his career as a NOVELIST. Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719, A journal of the plague year was published in 1722 giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839301717 2021-10-24 14:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1839301717 I was born of a good family p. 131 giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1853643825 2021-10-29 10:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/1853643825 Jean Jacques Rousseau on Robinson Crusoe, in Émile, ou De l’éducation (1762). "There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe. It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me." giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/2399863494 Buffon: a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste]]> 2022-11-28 08:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/2399863494 Robinson's island giulianagalbiati https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/2408162054 2022-12-04 17:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/giulianagalbiati/tq3ifvi8x41mn6rk/wish/2408162054