Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The complete first edition (1722) text of the novel.
• Albert J. Riveros revised preface, annotations, and essay on the novels 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 Defoes own writings on similar issues.
• Nine critical interpretationsfive of which are new to the Second Editionanalyzing important themes, such as economic necessity and gender relations.
• A chronology of Defoes life and a selected bibliography.