Daniel Defoe

The Fortunate Mistress (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

According to Wikipedia: "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress is a 1724 novel by Daniel Defoe. The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman", the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a similar female character in Moll Flanders). In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including "Roxana," describes her fall from wealth thanks to abandonment by a "fool" of a husband and movement into prostitution upon his abandonment. Roxana moves up and down through the social spectrum several times, by contracting an ersatz marriage to a jeweler, secretly courting a prince, being offered marriage by a Dutch merchant, and is finally able to afford her own freedom by accumulating wealth from these men."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seltzer Books
• Seitenzahl: 859
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781455397334
• Artikelnr.: 54171399

Autorenporträt

Marc Mierowsky is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is an associate editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022) and has published essays on authors including Defoe, John Dryden, Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee and Philip Roth and comedians including Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman and Marc Maron. Nicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is the editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (OUP, 2023) and of The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (2023). He has written essays on authors including John Bunyan, Eliza Haywood, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, and Samuel Johnson.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Daniel Defoe
THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS
Explanatory Notes