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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 323–347.
Published: 01 September 2003
... as a Žrst descrip- tion, for Fanny Hill, Defoe’s Roxana, Fielding’s Tom Jones, Burney’s Eve- lina, Lennox’s Female Quixote—we could extend the list at will.) Perhaps the following will stand as a working hypothesis: If action becomes unstuck in the early novel, if action no longer seems to carry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 595–597.
Published: 01 December 2016
... prepared for the moment, but she can still be surprised by it, over and over again” (177). At its best Miller’s book succeeds in isolating surprise as a crucial aesthetic phenomenon, deployed in both fiction and poetry. In recently rereading Roxana , for example, I was taken—surprised, one might say...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (3): 510–512.
Published: 01 September 1996
... the ghostly. Three essays deal with individual works (Roxana, The Female Husband, Clam’ssa);two in effect summarize the argu- ment of Castle’s book Masquerade and Civilization; one, the title piece, con- siders the metaphor of the thermometer as a measure of female feeling and the perplexed relation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 194–196.
Published: 01 June 1977
... with irony on occasion, but in the beginning, with Crusoe, he feels considerable sympathy and some identification with his creation. Ac- cording to this scheme, by the time he reached his last novel, Roxana, Defoe had ceased to sympathize with the rationalizations of his earlier characters...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 224–226.
Published: 01 June 1966
... 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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 410–418.
Published: 01 December 1983
... then his voluminous output has concerned itself with the artistry of those fictions. This delightfully illustrated little book collects five of Novak’s essays published over a fifteen-year period, ranging from a trail-blazing 1966 study of the aesthetic and moral complexity of Roxana...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 287–291.
Published: 01 September 1980
..., that Defoe’s “anachronisms” are not examples of hasty and careless planning, but are the result of Defoe’s deliberate placing of his characters in two times at once, thus enabling them to be immediate and sympathetic, and yet remote and mythic. “Defoe manages to have it both ways” (p. 35). Thus Roxana...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 196–200.
Published: 01 June 1977
.... The reason such a plea is doubtful in Roxana is that she has already relieved her immediate hunger and rid herself of her family when she plunges into what she herself knows is a course of sin. She replaces pleading her poverty with a plea of a fear of poverty, then with an argument from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 June 1978
...); instead he writes of Dyer’s Ruins of Rome and The Fleece, Roxana, the Graveyard School, The Deserted Village, and, most extensively, Wordsworth. Even if the book does not match our expectations, however, it works. At least so it seems to me. Goldstein, one learns, is a poet; and this book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 June 1978
... of Rome and The Fleece, Roxana, the Graveyard School, The Deserted Village, and, most extensively, Wordsworth. Even if the book does not match our expectations, however, it works. At least so it seems to me. Goldstein, one learns, is a poet; and this book may have had its beginning...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 222–224.
Published: 01 June 1966
... + 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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 226–228.
Published: 01 June 1966
...- ders? Or as even a distant model for Roxana, whose heroine (Starr observes) is perhaps beyond salvation? On the evidence of this study, the case is not completely proven. Starr successfully demonstrates how widespread was the confessional form in the seventeenth century. He also blurs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 377–380.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that Moll’s seventeenth-century life glances allegorically at shifting ideas of republicanism and the state, work, and interest. But the sharper points of this reading may be blurred by the wealth of detail and an unclear argument. Chapter 5 continues with Defoe, arguing that Roxana mounts a parody...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 373–375.
Published: 01 December 1960
... even when his manuscript was sent from the northernmost part of Scotland. He is not known to have been required to cut any of his tracts, but several were expanded for republication ; his Roxana has been considered so incomplete that a poor continuation by a stranger has been widely...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 221–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
... to employ a narrator” (Rothschild, 26 – 27). By the early eighteenth cen- tury Defoe could write in Roxana (1724) that “it is not always necessary that the names of persons should be discovered,” and the preface of Moll Flanders (1722) blandly asserted the unimportance of anonymity: “The author...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 456–459.
Published: 01 December 1972
...” be- cause “no learning whatsoever can give a man the knowledge of another’s heart.” The last statement sounds very much like Defoe’s attitude toward conscience, and the way he treats casuists in Roxana suggests further sym- pathy with South’s position. But what of the Protestant casuistry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the Plague Year  reveals risk taking within its plot of risk aversion, while in Roxana  Defoe’s attempt to move from will  to should creates what has been widely recognized as an unsettling conclusion. Here Molesworth applies one of many stimulating...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 118–121.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to speculate on likely outcomes, Molesworth argues, served to conceal the plot’s “transgressive” orientation toward exception- ality. Thus A Journal of the Plague Year  reveals risk taking within its plot of risk aversion, while in Roxana  Defoe’s attempt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 121–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
... within its plot of risk aversion, while in Roxana  Defoe’s attempt to move from will  to should creates what has been widely recognized as an unsettling conclusion. Here Molesworth applies one of many stimulating comparisons, aligning Roxana’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 March 2013
... plot of risk aversion, while in Roxana  Defoe’s attempt to move from will  to should creates what has been widely recognized as an unsettling conclusion. Here Molesworth applies one of many stimulating comparisons, aligning Roxana’s...