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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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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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Title Roxana: Or, the Fortunate Mistress
Author Daniel Defoe; Melissa Mowry (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition [ Edition: first
Pages 420
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Broadview Press Inc, Canada
Publication date 2009
Features Bibliography
ISBN 9781551118079 / 1551118076
Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Picaresque literature
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009464784
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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

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