Roxana Defoe Daniel Paperback
Roxana Defoe Daniel Paperback The final work of Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson CrusoeRoxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. Mlle Beleau, or Roxana as she becomes known, enters upon a career as a…
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Roxana Defoe Daniel Paperback
The final work of Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson CrusoeRoxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. Mlle Beleau, or Roxana as she becomes known, enters upon a career as a courtesan. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and degradation of its complex heroine.
But she is fatally torn between the dull virtue of middle-class respectability and the evil attractions of the beckoning city lights.The only one of Defoe's novels that does not end with the triumph of its protagonist, Roxana is nevertheless a triumphant work of art. She passes from one protector to another in England, France and Holland and amasses much wealth. It is of enormous historical and social interest, highlighting as it does the complex relationship that existed in Defoe's time between public respectability and private