SOURCE: Michael, Steven C. “Thinking Parables: What Moll Flanders Does Not Say.” ELH 63, no. 2 (summer 1996): 367-95.
In the essay that follows, Michael examines the “apparent absence of a moral center” in Moll Flanders, and applies the work of several Postmodern theorists to demonstrate the ways in which Moll's language is a form of capital.
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