Moll Flanders
Subtitle: An Analysis of 18th Century Criminal Biography
Publisher: Barry Rose Law Pub Ltd
Published: February 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781872328478
Subjects: Law; c 1700 to c 1800; Crime & criminology; General; London, Greater London; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900
Description: "Defoe's masterpiece is here related - in Gregory Durston's book - to a detailed factual examination of the times in which the fictional Moll Flanders lived. The book is a serious study of crime and the criminal justice system in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, based on an examination of contemporary literary portrayals and court records of the time."--BOOK JACKET.