Moll Flanders (墨尔·弗兰德斯)

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. 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.

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. 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.

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Albert J. Rivero is Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of The Plays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic Career. He is the editor of New Essays on Samuel Richardson, Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin, Critical Essays on Henry Fielding, and the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver's Travels.

Preface
The Text of Moll Flanders
Facsimile title page(1722)
Ther Preface
The History and Misfortunes Of the Famous Moll Flanders, &C.
A Textual Problem in Moll Flanders
Contexts
　Daniel Defoe—[Benefits of Transportation]
　[Moll’s Final Years in Ireland]
　The Life of James Mac-Faul, Husband to Moll Flanders, &c.
　Francis Kirkman—[The Counterfeit Lady Unveiled]
　Alexander Smith—[The Golden Farmer, A Murderer and Highway-man]
　[Whitney, A Highway-man]
　[Moll Raby, a House-breaker]
　[Anne Holland, a Pick-pocket]
　[Capt. James Hind, Murderer and Highway-man]
　[Moll Cutpurse, a Pick-pocket and Highwaywoman]
　[Virginia Laws on Servants]
　[Maryland Laws on Servants, Slaves, and Runaways]
Criticism
　Juliet McMaster—The Equation of Love and Money in Moll Flanders
　Everett Zimmerman—Moll Flanders: Parodies of Respectability
　Maximillian E. Novak—“Unweary’d Traveller” and “Indifferent Monitor”: Openness and Complexity in Moll Flanders
　Henry Knight Miller—Some Reflections on Defoe’s Moll Flanders and the Romance Tradition
　Ian A. Bell—Moll Flanders, Crime and Comfort
　Carol Kay—Moll Flanders: Political Woman
　Paula R. Backscheider—The Crime Wave and Moll Flanders
　John Rietz—Criminal Ms-Representation: Moll Flanders and Female Criminal Biography
　Ann Louise Kibbie—[The Birth of Capital in Defoe’s Moll Flanders]
　John Richetti—[Freedom and Necessity, Improvisation and Fate in Moll Flanders]
　Ellen Pollak—Moll Flanders, Incest, and the Structure of Exchange
Daniel Defoe: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography