Moll Flanders (Oxford English Novels) - Hardcover

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. 1971. xxxiv, 408pp. Oxford English Novels series. This edition of the classic picaresque novel is edited with an introduction by G.A. Starr, and also includes explanatory notes. Grey/Green cloth hardback with gilt titles to spine, in excellent condition.Previous owner's name to top of ffep. The unclipped dustjacket is also in excellent condition. "Posing as 'Quality', Moll Flanders and her second husband take a 'ramble' to Oxford, where they divert themselves by duping dons and 'bantering several other poor Scholars'. Doubtless Defoe shared Moll's amusement: in its exclusion of Dissenters, its neglect of useful learning for classical pedantry, its genteel laxity and sloth, its self-seeking High Churchmen, inflammatory Tories, and dis-loyal Jacobites, Oxford epitomized much that Defoe found baneful or ludicrous in the England of 1721. But he would have been even more amused to know that on the 250th anniversary of its first appearance, Moll Flanders was to be republished by the Oxford University Press, and that his hastily-written, indifferently-printed story of a 'low' woman was to reappear in a format reserved in his own day for the ancient classics with a care-fully edited text, a register of variant readings, extensive explanatory notes, and a critical introduction. Most modern reprints of Moll Flanders have been based on the so-called 'Third Edition, Corrected', on the assumption that Defoe himself made the revisions. Collating the five early versions for the first time, Professor G. A. Starr (of Berkeley, California) found that there were not three editions but a first followed by four issues of a second; and arguing that Defoe was probably not respon-sible for the second-edition changes, he has adopted the first edition as copy text.". Artikel-Nr. LitDefoe008a

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