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Roxana: or, The Fortunate Mistress

By Daniel Defoe , Melissa Mowry

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2009
ISBN
978-1-55111-807-9, 1551118076
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5666717 bytes)
Series
Broadview Editions
Edition
1
Pages
420\420
Time added
2018-02-18 10:30:00

Description

Almost three hundred years after its first publication, Roxana continues to challenge readers, who, though compelled by Roxana’s story, are often baffled by her complex relationships to her children, her fortune, and her vices. As one of Daniel Defoe’s four major fictions, Roxana has long been understood as central to the history of the novel, and provides readers with Defoe’s sharpest and most specific commentary on the complexities of life in seventeenth-century London. This edition offers a range of contemporary documents that will help readers understand the struggles of Roxana’s life as series of metaphoric engagements with pressing issues of her time.

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