Defoe/ novel

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. 1718. London: Penguin Books, 1994.

[original title: "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders 17 Times a Whore, 5 Times a Wife, whereof once to her own Brother, 12 Years a Thief, 11 Times in Bridewell, 9 Times in New Prison, ... 14 Times in the Gate-House, 25 Times in Newgate, 15 Times Whipt at the Carts Arse, 4 Times Burnt in the Hand, once Condemned for Life, and 8 Years a Transport in Virginia"]

Defoe/ pamphlets

"King William's Affection to the Church of England Examined", publ. in The Versatile Defoe: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Laura Ann Curtis. London: George Prior Publishers, 1979.

"An Appeal to Honour and Justice, &c.", publ. in The Shortest Way With the Dissenters And Other Pamphlets by Daniel Defoe. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927.

On Defoe and his Works

Backscheider, Paula R. Moll Flanders. The Making of a Criminal Mind. Boston: Twayne, 1990.

Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe. His Life. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Bell, Ian A. Defoe's Fiction. London, 1985.

Birdsall, Virginia Ogden. Defoe's Perpetual Seekers. A Study of the Major Fiction. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1985.

Curtis, Laura A. The Elusive Daniel Defoe. London: Vision Press, 1984.

Faller, Lincoln B. Crime and Defoe. A New Kind of Writing. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Rietz, John. "Criminal Mis-Representation: Moll Flanders and Female Criminal Biography", Studies in the Novel, 23 (1991), 403-15.

Singleton, Robert R. "Defoe, Moll Flanders, and the Ordinary of Newgate", Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 407-13.

18th Century Novel

Faller, Lincoln B. Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: University Press, 1987.

McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel. Baltimore, London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Novak, Maximilian E. "'Appearances of Truth': The Literature of Crime as a Narrative System (1660-1841)." The Yearbook of English Studies, 11 (1981), 29-48.

"The Rise of the Novel 16th Century AD"

Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding, 1957, repr. Peregrine Book, repr. 1968 und London: Chatto & Windus 1963, and Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.

Law, Literature and Society in the 18th Century

Auerbach, Nina. Romantic Imprisonment. Women and Other Glorified Outcasts. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

Bell, Ian A. Literature and Crime in Augustan England. London: Routledge, 1991.

Bender, John. Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Chicago und London: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Cockburn, J.S., ed. Crime in England 1550-1800. London: Methuen, 1977.

Gatrell, V.A.C. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Linebaugh, Peter. The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.

Punter, David. "Fictional Representation of the Law in the Eighteenth Century." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 16 (1982), 47-74.

Speck, W.A. Literature and Society in Eighteenth Century England: Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820. London and New York: Longman, 1998. (Themes in British Social History Series)

Swan, Beth. Fictions of Law: An Investigation of the Law in Eighteenth-century Fiction.
Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, 1997.

Zomchick, John P. Family and the Law in 18th Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.

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