Moll Flanders - A Norton Critical Edition.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The complete first edition (1722) text of the novel.


• Albert J. Rivero's revised preface, annotations, and essay on the novel's textual history.


• A selection of contextual materials, including documents on convict transportation and colonial laws, contemporary accounts of criminals, and a brand-new selection of Defoe's own writings on similar issues.


• Nine critical interpretations-five of which are new to the Second Edition-analyzing important themes, such as economic necessity and gender relations.


• A chronology of Defoe's life and a selected bibliography.

About the author

Albert J. Rivero is Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English at Marquette University. He has published widely on the literature of the British long eighteenth century. His most recent publication is Daniel Defoe in Context (coedited with George Justice). He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver’s Travels and Moll Flanders.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Defoe, Defoe Daniel, Albert J. Rivero
• Assisted by: Albert J. Rivero (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9780393888973
• ISBN: 978-0-393-88897-3
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 26 mm x 214 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Classic fiction: general and literary