Women, Crime, and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Nicola Lacey

In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a novel whose heroine was a sexually adventurous, socially marginal property offender. Only half a century later, this would have been next to unthinkable. Lacey explores the disappearance of Moll, and her supercession in the annals of literary female offenders by heroines like Tess, serving as a metaphor for fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199544360
• ISBN13: 9780199544363
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"