Daniel Defoe

The Fortunate Mistress (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In March, 1724, was published the narrative in which Defoe came, perhaps even nearer than in Moll Flanders, to writing what we today call a novel, namely: The Fortunate Mistress; or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de' Belau; afterwards called the Countess of Wintelsheim, in Germany. Being the Person known by the name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II. No second edition appeared till after Defoe's death, which occurred in 1731. Then for some years, various editions of The Fortunate Mistress came out. Because Defoe had not indicated the end of his chief characters so clearly as he usually did in his stories, several of these later editions carried on the history of the heroine. Probably none of the continuations was by Defoe himself, though the one in the edition of 1745 has been attributed to him. For this reason, and because it has some literary merit, it is included in the present edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783749447923
• Artikelnr.: 56876773

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