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...Terence Martin Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 THE UNITY OF MOLL FLANDERS By TERENCEMARTIN The flat, episodic nature of the narrative in Moll Flanders leaves Moll herself as the one immediately discernible principle of unity...

... statements, 1 do not; so for the purposes of this review I will divide my discussion between Starr’s critical approach and his treatment of casuistry. I will begin with Starr’s discussion of the famous section of Moll Flanders in which Moll meets and marries her Lancashire husband, Jemmy, she...

... for this belief in Tirso’s hatred toward the Girones is based chiefly on three plays--El castigo del penskque, Quien caZla, otorga, and El melancdlico. El castigo del penskque has as its pro- tagonist Don Rodrigo Girdn, a second son who goes to Flanders in search of fortune which Spain had denied him...

... Press, 1965. xiii + 203 pp. $6.50. G. A. Starr seeks to show Defoe’s debt, in Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, to the tradition of spiritual autobiography in the seventeenth century. In reviewing the tradition, he concentrates on Presbyterian and Anglican sources rather than...

... chosen as major objects of study-Moll Flanders and Tom Jones-are not essentially in the picaresque mode. Ostensibly, the Spanish picaresque tradition is substantially ignored because it has already been thoroughly studied by F. W. Chandler and others. But one suspects that it may also have...

... and created a character whose unwillingness to lie to herself brings her close to madness. And with that creation and self-discovery he gave up fiction. Zimmerman reads Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and Roxana in terms of Defoe’s technical achievement in allowing the reader to see the disparity...

... much like his fictional narrators, for whom the sublime is always beyond description (p. 32). And double-entendres and paren- thetical asides issue from such autobiographers as Moll Flanders and Roxana as well as the quite different biographer of Jonathan Wild (pp. 82, 84, 103, 123...

...” and on several occasions acted as regent of Flan- ders in Philip’s absence. He married Agnes, sister of Hellin de Wavrin, Seneschal of Flanders, had at least three sons, one of whom, Roger, was his chief heir, and, since his last notice appears in 1185, probably died shortly thereafter. In fine...

... Donovan into overstate- ment. His chapter on Moll Flanders exaggerates the consistency and control of Defoe’s irony, lvhile his treatment of I’cr11zcIn-altlioiigh it is refreshingly free of the standard argument concerning Pamela’s “morality”-iiiakes clainis for Richardson’s handling...

... in Flanders, likewise democratic but with a poor setup in Spain, aristocratic in Italy and England, mixed and with a latent hostility in France (an aspect whose reflection in poetry is studied by V. L. Saulnier). Many side lights vary the entrhes, meetings, and enfrevues. Vicomte Terlin- den...

... Carco, even if he is a little more lenient to him than, in our opinion, posterity will be. The very special world, or underworld, depicte9 by Carco is, in itself, just as inter- esting as that of Proust or that of Mauriac’s provincial and frustrated charac- ters. From Moll Flanders...

... to destroy Professor Manly’s main contention in his recent book.” The “evi- dence” and the “contention” do not really conflict in any way whatsoever. G. G. Sedgewick 437 The first, which may be called the Flanders Heresy, is based on a single...

... attention to this similarity is intimated by the connection he estab- lished between the portraits of the Squire and the Merchant. The Squire’s expedition was to Flanders, and the Merchant, who wears “a Flaundryssh bever hat,” “wolde the see were kept for any thyng / Bitwixe Middelburgh...

... + 203 pp. $6.50. G. A. Starr seeks to show Defoe’s debt, in Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, to the tradition of spiritual autobiography in the seventeenth century. In reviewing the tradition, he concentrates on Presbyterian and Anglican sources rather than Baptist and Quaker...

... hostility to populism, plebeian culture, and a factious “rabble.” Defoe’s harnessing of commercial society to license new kinds of individualism nonetheless brings into sharp relief the loss of what the Levellers represented. Chapter 4, proceeding from republicanism with a lengthy reading of Moll Flanders...

... and the best of what it inspires—take the case of the first ballad opera in England, John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera (1728). But consider Moll Flanders (1722), a popular novel ascribed to Defoe some forty years after his death. Quite a few literary historians have praised the novel as an important stepping-stone...

... of his understanding. Boswell is much like Moll Flanders, who also presents but cannot fully comprehend her plight. Both characters struggle with a variety of fears and conflicts, without always illuminating the source or nature of the issues. As the Louisa saga illustrates, Boswell...

... subsequent analysis of several comedias , especially Diego Ximénez de Enciso’s play Juan Latino (1610–21), Andrés de Claramonte’s El valiente negro en Flandes ( The Valiant Black Man in Flanders , 1612–26; published 1638), and Lope’s El santo negro Rosambuco ( The Sainted Black Man Rosambuco , 1599...

... in the year of Moll Flanders was not 1,500 pages, but more than 3,000, be- sides a major part of The Daily Post and the journals of Mist and Applebee. There is no possibility that Defoe was brought up as a Baptist; he expressed complete indifference as to the methods of baptism, and his usual...

... the rapacious monarchy of the Span- ish overlords. Constructing this polemic required, as Schmidt points out, a good deal of fancy footwork. The Hapsburg elite and army of Flanders had to be simpliŽed into a colonial antagonist, its rule in Europe had to be con- ated with the extension of imperial power...