This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722) the only text
known to be Defoe's own. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and the editor's
essay outlining the novel's textual history. Contexts collects related documents on criminal
transport contemporary accounts of lives of crime and colonial laws as they applied to
servants slaves and runaways. Criticism includes eleven interpretations by Juliet McMaster
Everett Zimmerman Maximillian E. Novak Henry Knight Miller Ian A. Bell Carol Kay Paula B.
Backscheider John Rietz Ann Louise Kibbie John Richetti and Ellen Pollak. A Chronology and
Selected Bibliography are also included.
