Moll Flanders

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.