Roxana: or, The Fortunate Mistress

Daniel Defoe

apl 2009 · Broadview Press

À propos de cet e-book

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.

À propos de l'auteur

Melissa Mowry is Associate Professor of English at St. John’s University, New York.