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Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn's work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the ...
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She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English ...
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The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
This collection of critical essays explores the different genres in Behn's canon, including her plays, criticism, fiction and poetry, from a wide variety of feminist theoretical approaches.
For, from Paris no Aids of any kind could be brought him; the Roads all along being so well guarded and secured by the Royal Forces, and wanting some great Persons to espouse his Quarrel, made him not only dispair of Success, ...
The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd. Vol. 6. London: Pickering, 1996. 83-159. ––. The Forc'd Marriage. The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd. Vol. 5. London: Pickering 1996. 1-81. ––. The Fair Jilt. The Works of Aphra Behn.
hundred and eighty Years; which Computation differs an hundred Years from that in I King. 6. 1. which is but four hundred and eighty. It is not my present Business to reconcile this difference; but I can easily do it; if any Body think ...