Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Daniel Defoe. Roxana. Peterborough: Broadview, 2009.
  • Crane, Julie. “Defoe’s ‘Roxana’: The Making and Unmaking of a Heroine.” The Modern Language Review 102, no. 1 (2007): 11–25.

  • Booker, Kristina. “Richardson’s Pamela, Defoe’s Roxana, and Emulation Anxiety in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 14, no. 2 (2014): 41–61.

  • Healey, Christina L. "“A perfect Retreat indeed”: Speculation, Surveillance, and Space in Defoe’s Roxana." Eighteenth Century Fiction 21, no. 4 (2009): 493-512

  • Castle, Terry J. “‘Amy, Who Knew My Disease’: A Psychosexual Pattern in Defoe’s Roxana.” ELH 46, no. 1 (1979): 81–96.

  • Nawrot, Dawn A. "The Female Accomplice: Rape and the Servant Problem in Roxana." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 29, no. 4 (2017): 563-582.

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