Aphra Behn's English Feminism: Wit and Satire
- ISBN-10
- 1575910292
- ISBN-13
- 9781575910291
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Author
- Dolors Altaba-Artal
Description
Behn's novels, though, discard Zayas's pessimistic views and supernatural accounts; using wit and satire, they completely subvert the original texts."--BOOK JACKET.
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