Roxana
The Fortunate Mistress
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. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. 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. Unlike Defoe's other penitent anti-heroes, however, she fails to triumph over these weaknesses.The novel's…
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Weitere Autoren: Mullan, John (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-266926-1
- EAN: 9780192669261
- Produktnummer: 37440694
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 2 halftones, 1 map
Über den Autor
John Mullan is Lecturer in English at University College, London.
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