Moll Flanders an authoritative text contexts criticism

Synopsis

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.