Roxana: or, The Fortunate Mistress (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Defoe, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551118076 ISBN 13: 9781551118079

Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2009

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"Rare is that edition that gives us a fresh interpretation of a primary work, but that is precisely what Melissa Mowry has accomplished in this excellent edition. The introduction details Roxana's place in Defoe's career and the ways the novel evokes his Dissenter politics, while also shedding new light on the novel's imbrication in debates about political sovereignty, feminism, and prostitution. The supplementary materials are all artfully chosen to produce fresh readings of the novel. Finally, the inclusion of some of the alternate endings written for Roxana, along with a brief reception history of Defoe's work, invites speculation about changes in the representation of gender and sexuality over the course of the long eighteenth century in Britain." -- Scarlet Bowen, University of Colorado

Reseña del editor:

Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own "wicked" life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. This edition uses the rare first edition text, with a new Introduction, detailed Notes, textual history and a map of contemporary London.

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• Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1551118076
• ISBN 13: 9781551118079
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420
• Herausgeber: Mowry Melissa