SOURCE: Suarez, Michael F. “The Shortest Way to Heaven? Moll Flanders' Repentance Reconsidered.” In 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 3, edited by Kevin L. Cope, pp. 3-28. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1997.
In the following essay, Suarez argues that Defoe stresses the insincerity of Moll's repentance with deliberate irony.
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