The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana) (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Defoe, Daniel; Mierowsky, Marc; Seager, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198851022 ISBN 13: 9780198851028

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This new edition of Daniel Defoe's final novel, under Defoe's original title The Fortunate Mistress, provides an up-to-date introduction and extensive footnotes. Defoe's narrative provides vivid commentary on economics, sexuality, social class, the family, religion, sex work, and marriage.

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About the Author

Daniel Defoe

Marc Mierowsky is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is an associate editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022) and has published essays on authors including Defoe, John Dryden, Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee and Philip Roth and comedians including Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman and Marc Maron.

Nicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is the editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (OUP, 2023) and of The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (2023). He has written essays on authors including John Bunyan, Eliza Haywood, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, and Samuel Johnson.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198851022
• ISBN 13: 9780198851028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 368