Aphra Behn's Afterlife |
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| Author:
| Spencer, Jane |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-818494-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $128.14AUD $162.95 |
Book Description:
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The most successful woman writer of the Restoration, Aphra Behn (1640-89) became an important influence on the literature of the following century. This book examines her complex legacy to later writers, both men and women, traces the stage history of her comedy The Rover, and shows how her Surinam novel, Oroonoko, was transformed into an instrument of the anti-slavery movement.
The most successful woman writer of the Restoration, Aphra Behn (1640-89) became an important influence on the literature of the following century. This book examines her complex legacy to later writers, both men and women, traces the stage history of her comedy The Rover, and shows how her Surinam novel, Oroonoko, was transformed into an instrument of the anti-slavery movement.