| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 309 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Introduction; PART I REPUTATIONS; 1 Pleasure and Poetry: The Behn Myth; 2 The Dramatist and the Novelist; PART II INFLUENCES; 3 The Sons of Behn; 4 Her Wit, without Her Shame: Women Writing after Behn; PART III RECEPTIONS; 5 The Rover; 6 Oroonoko; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
Aphra Behn is significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer. This analysis of her influence on literature argues the need for a feminist revision of the writer who had literary sons as well as daughters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-302) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Stage history
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Influence
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko.
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Rover
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| SUBJECT |
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 fast |
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Oroonoko (Behn, Aphra) fast |
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Rover (Behn, Aphra) fast |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Slavery in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Slavery in literature
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Women and literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585486395 |
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9780585486390 |
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1280375035 |
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9781280375033 |
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9780191674402 |
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0191674400 |
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