It is these narrative arts-journalistic narration, episodic plot, innovatory characterization and dual voices that make Daniel Defoe father of the modern English novel as well as Moll Flanders the first novel in the English literature.

• 独特的小说的叙事艺术不但使《摩尔·弗兰德丝》成为英国小说史上第一部小说，同时也确立了笛福英国小说之父的文学地位。