Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn: Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave
By Aphra BehnOroonoko is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn, published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony.
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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life
By Janet ToddIn this revised biography, Janet Todd draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn's own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise from humble origins of the first ...
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Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
By Mary Ann O'Donnell... 120a, 802 Rowe, Nicholas, 575 Rowe, Thomas, 097b Rowlandson, Mary, 1407 Rowton, Frederic, 132 Royal Shakespeare Company, 665, 740, 767, 790, 900, 1374 Royal Society, 1165, 1307 Rozbicki, Michal J., 849a Rubenstein, John, 1136 Rubik, ...
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Aphra Behn
By S.J. Wiseman... 65±67, 68, 69 Voyage to the Island of Love 18± 22 The Widow Ranter 31, 49 The Younger Brother 31 Brooks, Peter 63, 69 Burnet, Gilbert 14 Burney, Fanny 63 Carleton, Mary 85 Castle, Terry 51 Milton, John 10 Chambers, Ross 71 Cooper, ...
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Aphra Behn: The Comedies
By Kate AughtersonIn 1688 he and his wife bore a son, and the arrival of a Catholic heir prompted many aristocrats to turn to Charles II's daughter Mary and her husband, William of Orange, and invite William to invade the country and assume the monarchy.
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Aphra Behn
By Janet M. ToddThe essays collected here on Behn's drama, prose and poetry represent a range of contemporary critical views, some placing Behn within the history of her times and others illuminating her through modern critical theory and debates on gender ...
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Aphra Behn: The English Sappho
By George WoodcockThe author of four truly important novels--The Recognitions in 1955, J R in 1975, Carpenter's Gothic in 1985, and A Frolic of His Own in 1995--William Gaddis is considered by...
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Aphra Behn
By S. J. WisemanMacDonald, Joyce Green, `The Disappearing African Woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko After Behn', English Literary History 66 (1999), 71±86. Spencer, Jane, Aphra Behn's Afterlife (Oxford, 2000). Todd, Janet, The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn ...
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Aphra Behn
By Susan WisemanMacDonald, Joyce Green, `The Disappearing African Woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko After Behn', English Literary History 66 (1999), 71±86. Spencer, Jane, Aphra Behn's Afterlife (Oxford, 2000). Todd, Janet, The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn ...
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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life
By Janet ToddThe life, work and history of Aphra Behn: 17th-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.
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Aphra Behn
By Susan Wiseman, S. J. WisemanDuring a writing career from the Restoration (1660) to the so-called Glorious Revolution (1688-9) Aphra Behn was prolific in all the commercial genres of her time and treated the most...
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Aphra Behn
By Janet ToddJanet Todd provides a stimulating introduction mapping Behn' s literary reception, situating the works of the critics included in a broader literary context and pointing towards Behn as a newly politicized figure at the close of the ...