Further Reading
CRITICISM
Blewett, David. “Changing Attitudes toward Marriage in the Time of Defoe: The Case of Moll Flanders.” Huntington Library Quarterly 44, no. 2 (spring 1981): 77-88.
Uses Moll Flanders to argue that Defoe believed in the need for love in marriage.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, 146 p.
Collection of essays that provides a useful variety of criticism on Defoe's novel.
Butler, Mary. “‘Onomaphobia’ and Personal Identity in Moll Flanders.” Studies in the Novel 22, no. 4 (winter 1990): 377-91.
Considers the significance of Moll Flanders' concealment of her “real name” as well as the proper names of the other characters she portrays in her narrative.
DeRitter, Jones. “Blaming the Audience, Blaming the Gods: Unwitting Incest in Three Eighteenth-Century English Novels.” In Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Culture, edited by Thomas DiPiero and Pat Gill, pp. 221-38. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Examines the treatment of incest in three eighteenth-century novels.
Durston, Gregory. Moll Flanders: An Analysis of an Eighteenth Century Criminal Biography, Chichester, Eng.: Barry Rose Law Publishers, 1997, 304 p.
Provides an analysis of Moll Flanders as a criminal biography.
Elliot, Robert C., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Moll Flanders: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970, 113 p.
Includes some of the most important twentieth-century commentary on Moll Flanders.
Flynn, Christopher. “Nationalism, Commerce, and Imperial Anxiety in Defoe's Later Works.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 54, no. 2 (2000): 11-24.
Analysis Defoe's views on commerce and imperialism as evidenced in his some of his works that involve British colonial ventures in the Americas.
Hentzi, Gary. “Holes in the Heart: Moll Flanders, Roxana, and ‘Agreeable Crime.’” Boundary 2 18, no. 1 (spring 1991): 174-200.
Explores the conflict between virtue and necessity in Defoe's two major novels about women in the light of recently developed narrative theory.
Hummel, William E. “‘The Gift of my Father's Bounty’: Patriarchal Patronization in Moll Flanders and Roxana.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 48, no. 2 (1994): 119-41.
Explains the power dynamic between men and women in terms of a theory of “gift exchange”while addressing the debate between Marxists and feminists on Moll Flanders and Roxana.
Kibbie, Ann Louise. “Monstrous Generation: The Birth of Capital in Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana.” PMLA 110, no. 5 (October 1995): 1023-34.
Analyzes the connection between biological and monetary reproduction in Moll Flanders and Roxana.
Lovitt, Carl R. “Defoe's ‘Almost Invisible Hand’: Narrative Logic as a Structuring Principle in Moll Flanders.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 6, no. 1 (October 1993): 1-28.
Approaches the debate about external authority with respect to Defoe's novel by focusing on “impossible” events, or lapses in narrative logic, as the key to understanding this aspect of Moll Flanders.
Richetti, John. “The Family, Sex, and Marriage in Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 15, no. 2 (fall 1982): 19-35.
Focuses on Defoe's subversive treatment of marriage in Moll Flanders and Roxana.
Rietz, John. “Criminal Ms-Representation: Moll Flanders and Female Criminal Biography.” Studies in the Novel 23, no. 2 (summer 1991): 183-95.
Discusses Moll Flanders in the context of the female criminal biography genre.
Yongue, Patricia Lee. “Marian Forrester and Moll Flanders: Fortunes and Misfortunes.” In Women and Western American Literature, edited by Helen Winter Stauffer and Susan J. Rosowski, pp. 194-211. Troy, N.Y.: The Whitson Publishing Company, 1982.
Compares the heroines of Willa Cather's and Defoe's novels in the context of “the economic situation of women in a man's world.”
Additional coverage of Defoe's life and career are contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 27; Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 4; British Writers, Vol. 3; British Writers Retrospective Supplement, Vol. 1; Children's Literature Review, Vol. 61; Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, 1660-1789; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 39, 95, 101; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors Module; DISCovering Authors Modules: Novelists Module; Junior DISCovering Authors; Literary Movements for Students, Vol. 1; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 1; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vols. 1, 42; Literature Resource Center; Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, Ed. 1, 2; Novels for Students, Vols. 9, 13; Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2; Something About the Author, Vol. 22; Twayne's English Authors, Vol. 3; World Literature and Its Times, Ed. 3; World Literature Criticism; and Writers for Children.
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