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London – England’s great metropolis, centre of government, and standard of taste and refinement, was not only a city of commercial wealth and aristocratic glitter; it also exhibited various manifestations of misery, poverty, and crime. Daniel Defoe had, in fact, himself experienced the shame attending an insolvent debtor – and hence tried to communicate the city’s darker side to the world. Moll Flanders shows the descent of a woman from prize beauty to prostitute to thief, narrated by herself as one of society’s victims. In this course, we shall, on the basis of an explorative foray into the late seventeenth-century London underworld, discuss Defoe’s novel and his attempt to represent the London life of the not-so-fortunate – from a woman’s point of view.
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Crime and the City