Moll Flanders (Broadview Edition)

Defoe, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1551114518 / ISBN 13: 9781551114514

Published by Broadview Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moll Flanders (Broadview Edition)
• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551114518
• ISBN 13: 9781551114514
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Born to a petty thief in London’s notorious Newgate prison and determined to make her way in a rapacious and materialistic society, Moll Flanders recounts the “fortunes and misfortunes” of her turbulent life in this 1722 novel. Though Moll Flanders was shaped by the conventions of criminal biography, Defoe also drew on other literary traditions and his own rich background to create a remarkably original―and still controversial―work.

In addition to a critical introduction and substantial footnotes, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of writings by Defoe as well as contemporary responses to Moll Flanders. Other appendices include a selection of eighteenth-century writings on crime, prisons, and the Virginia colony.

About the Author

Paul Scanlon Professor and Head of the Department of English at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, has written widely on Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature.