Archive for January, 2007
No better than she ought to be
My 30 pages on Hogmanay were Defoe’s Moll Flanders which is deliciously racy (and fascinating to contrast with Austen as an allotropic meditation on women considering the value of their ‘virtue’ as their only negotiable asset). I wonder how informed literary opinion/criticism compares Defoe-M-1772 with Austen-F-1830 on the topic. Undoubtedly, through our eyes, same topic [...]
Posted: January 1st, 2007 under Pre-2009.
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