The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

The condition of the female class in England

Moll Flanders

Remarkable novel.

If indeed Defoe did write it, what possessed him to do so?

I suppose it counts as a picaresque novel and a novel of manners, but it's also a feminist tract before its time.

I think.

The narrative is continuous except for a division into two parts, which makes it inconvenient to put the book down to go do something else once you have started reading.

Interesting reading.

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