num_pages: 544
description: 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 by detailed explanatory annotations and the editor's essay outlining the novel s textual history. 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.
language: English
title: Moll Flanders
titlecomplete: Moll Flanders
characters: Moll Flanders
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, 18th Century, Literature, English Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 45542
places: Bath, Somerset, England, Newgate Prison, London, England, Georgia, London, England, Virginia
publisher: Norton