Synopses & Reviews
This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text(1722), the only text known to be Defoe"s own. It is accompanied bydetailed explanatory annotations and the editor"s essay outlining thenovel"s textual history.
'Contexts' collects related documents on criminal transport,contemporary accounts of lives of crime, and colonial laws as theyapplied to servants, slaves, and runaways.
'Criticism' includes eleven interpretations by Juliet McMaster, EverettZimmerman, Maximillian E. Novak, Henry Knight Miller, Ian A. Bell,Carol Kay, Paula B. Backscheider, John Rietz, Ann Louise Kibbie, JohnRichetti, and Ellen Pollak.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Synopsis
"Contexts" collects related documents on criminal transport, contemporary accounts of lives of crime, and colonial laws as they applied to servants, slaves, and runaways "Criticism" includes eleven interpretations by Juliet McMaster, Everett Zimmerman, Maximillian E. Novak, Henry Knight Miller, Ian A. Bell, Carol Kay, Paula B. Backscheider, John Rietz, Ann Louise Kibbie, John Richetti, and Ellen Pollak A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Synopsis
This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text known to be Defoe's own.
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Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time.
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is one of the best-selling novels of all time.
About the Author
ALBERT J. RIVERO is Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of The Plays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic Career, and editor of New Essays on Samuel Richardson, Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin and Critical Essays of Henry Fielding.