The Text in Motion: Eighteenth-Century Roxanas

Griffin, Robert J.

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“…Another notable instance, Richardson's Pamela, is especially relevant to the context of this article, since one of the multiple parodies it inspired, written by Eliza Haywood, was translated by Mauvillon (Hartmann 2002: 49-55). Harries (1994), Hunter (1997), Griffin (2005), MacArthur (1987), and Traver (2007 for further discussion of closure in pre-nineteenth-century prose fiction. See Miller (1981) for an investigation of resistance to closure in nineteenth-century novels.…”

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Reconsidering Narrative Closure in the Eighteenth Century: Transfictionality in Mauvillon’s Continuation of Prévost’s Mémoires d’un honnête homme

Baker¹

2017

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Reconsidering Narrative Closure in the Eighteenth Century: Transfictionality in Mauvillon’s Continuation of Prévost’s Mémoires d’un honnête homme

Baker¹

2017

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“…Walter Wilson speculated that the Cooke edition might have been written 'by a son of De Foe, as the style in some places greatly resembles that of the original'. 9 Scholars can and will assert paternity or property rights on behalf of an author. Running to seven editions within two years of its first publication, Moll Flanders (1722) also co-existed throughout the eighteenth century in multiple iterations with starkly different, often abrupt endings.…”

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Continuations and Adaptations

Cook¹

2023

Daniel Defoe in Context

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CHAPTER 44 Continuations and Adaptations Daniel Cook'A Book is the Author's Property', Defoe writes in the Review. 'But behold in this Christian Nation', he continues, 'these Children of our Heads are seiz'd, captivated, spirited away, and carry'd into Captivity, and there is none to redeem them'. 1 Defoe nevertheless indulged in the ancient art of unofficial continuation with A Continuation of Letters Written by a Turkish Spy at Paris (1718), an extension of a popular series originally printed in France under the title L'espion du Grand-Seigneur and in England as Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy (1687). He extended his own property too. The Family Instructor (1715) gained a further volume in 1718. The New Family Instructor (1727) appeared less than a decade later. His most notable continuation followed Robinson Crusoe shortly after the first book's publication: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (both 1719). Sometimes those two volumes are grouped with a third, Serious Reflections (1720), a medley of in-character essays rather than a conventional narrative, an expansion rather than a sequel.Adaptations and continuations come in different shapes and sizes. Some come in book form, though not all are novels -there are comics, poems, and much more besides. Some rework material for the stage, screen or other transmedia outlets. Some will appear under a new name, that of the adapter or sequelist, but some will be authentic-seeming plagiarisms. Then there are abridgements, which are typically published under the original author's name or nom de plume, with little acknowledgement of the abridger's labour. Robinson Crusoe abridgements followed within weeks of the original book's first appearance in the marketplace; according to Eve Tavor 2 Bannet there were at least 136 such publications in English alone, plus thirty-nine American ones published between 1774 and 1800. 2 (The abridgers hijacked Crusoe's own logic as he refers to his memory of events as an 'Abridgement' of 'the whole History of My Life in Miniature'.) 3 Favouring pseudonymous publication, Defoe was especially susceptible to what Gerard Genette calls 'murderous continuations', which seek to erase the original by quietly abridging, expanding or otherwise rewriting earlier editions. 4 Defoe was not alone in defending his property from spurious sequelists. 5 In the Second Part of Don Quixote of La Mancha (1615) Cervantes disavowed 'another Don Quixote who, under the name of The Second Part, has run masquerading through the whole world'. John Bunyan introduces his sequel to The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) with a warning that 'some have of late, to Counterfeit / My pilgrim, to their own, my Title set'. Samuel Richardson rushed out another two volumes for Pamela (1740) as 'my Characters were likely to be debased' by others. 6 In his Crusoe continuation Defoe blasts 'The Injury these Men do the Proprietor of this Work […] Robbing on the Highway, or Breaking open a House'. 7 Questions about literary property or paternity rights (the main metaphors used in eighte...

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“…22 Griffin has further argued that the publication history of Roxana allows the scholar to see a text in motion where each edition defies conventional thinking about narrative closure and the way in which a text may be generalized apart from its editions. 23 The Noble 1775 Roxana ends sentimentally with Roxana returning to England and marrying Mr. Worthy, while her servant Amy weds his valet. The 1776 Moll Flanders, also, undergoes a dramatic revision: the heroine is not a pickpocket or a thief, as in 1722.…”

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Attribution and Repetition: The Case of Defoe and the Circulating Library

Vareschi¹

2012

Eighteenth-Century Life

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While much scholarly attention has been paid to attributing or de-attributing the texts associated with Daniel Defoe properly, less attention has been paid to the process of attribution itself and the context in which these attributions were made. This essay examines the various means through which Francis Noble and his brother John represented the authorial relationship between Defoe, Roxana, and Moll Flanders between 1775 and 1787 and analyzes these attributions within the larger discourses surrounding the Nobles’ circulating libraries. “Attribution and Repetition” provides an account of attribution as a slow and repetitive process rather than a singular moment or act.

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The Text in Motion: Eighteenth-Century Roxanas

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Reconsidering Narrative Closure in the Eighteenth Century: Transfictionality in Mauvillon’s Continuation of Prévost’s Mémoires d’un honnête homme

Reconsidering Narrative Closure in the Eighteenth Century: Transfictionality in Mauvillon’s Continuation of Prévost’s Mémoires d’un honnête homme

Continuations and Adaptations

Attribution and Repetition: The Case of Defoe and the Circulating Library

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