Literature

The Mystery of Moll

Linguistic paradoxes and the evasion of identity in ‘Moll Flanders’

Plagues and Portents

In Shakespeare, the word ‘honour’, with its derivatives and variants, occurs more than 900 times. Among abstract nouns only ‘love’ and ‘time’ are used more…

World Literature

A Novel Enterprise

Daniel Defoe was a prolific journalist, producing no fewer than 560 journals, tracts and books yet somehow always in debt. His various schemes included attempts…