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Author : Ernest Bernbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mrs. Behn's "Oroonoko". written by Ernest Bernbaum and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775415600
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Oroonoko written by Aphra Behn and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers and Oroonoko was one of her earliest works. It is the love story between Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, and the daughter of that king's general. The king takes the girl into his harem, and when she plans to escape with his grandson, sells her as a slave. When Oroonoko tries to follow her he is caught by an English slave trader and taken to the same West Indian island as his love.
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191509213
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Oroonoko and Other Writings written by Aphra Behn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'. (Preface to The Lucky Chance). Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the story of a noble slave who loves a princess. Acclaimed by Virginia Woolf as the first English woman to earn her living by the pen, Behn's achievements as a writer are now acknowledged less equivocally than in the seventeenth century. As well as Oroonoko, this volume contains five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam, The History of the Nun, The Adventure of the Black Lady, and The Unfortunate Bride are complemented by a generous selection of her poetyr, ranging from public political verse to lyrics and witty conversation poems. This selection demonstrates Behn's range, as well as her wit, compassion, and interest in the question of identity and self-representation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819165299
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave written by Aphra Behn and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1987 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edited text of Oroonoko, a seventeenth-century novel of love, passion, and the struggle for human dignity written by England's most eminent woman playwright, poet, and novelist of the day. The novel tells the story of a great African warrior who falls victim to treachery. As a result, he finds himself a slave in what is now Dutch Guinea. As an emancipation novel, the work gives insight into slave practices in both Africa and the New World Colonies.
Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448212545
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of Aphra Behn written by Janet Todd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her life. She loved codes, making and breaking them; writing her life becomes a decoding of a passionate but playful woman. 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 woman to earn her living as a professional writer. Aphra Behn's first notable employment was as a Royal spy in Holland; she had probably also spied in Surinam. It was not until she was in her thirties that she published the first of the 19 plays and other works which established her fame (though not riches) among her 'good, sweet, honey-candied readers'. Many of her works were openly erotic, indeed as frank as anything by her friends Wycherley and Rochester. Some also offered an inside view of court and political intrigues, and Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn's most famous 'fictions'.
Author : Cynthia Richards
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603291717
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko written by Cynthia Richards and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides not only resources for the teacher of Oroonoko but also a brief chronology of Behn's life and work. In part 2, "Approaches," essays offer a diversity of perspectives appropriate to a text that challenges student assumptions and contains not one story but many: Oroonoko as a romance, as a travel account, as a heroic tragedy, as a window to seventeenth-century representations of race, as a reflection of Tory-Whig conflict in the time of Charles II.
Author : Derek Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826948
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn written by Derek Hughes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. 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 novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118724925
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The English Novel written by Terry Eagleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996).
Author : Heidi Hutner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813914435
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Rereading Aphra Behn written by Heidi Hutner and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn was the first Englishwoman to earn her living from writing. 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.
Author : Thomas Southerne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803292925
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Oroonoko written by Thomas Southerne and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1976-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two plots of this tragicomedy concern a black prince sold into slavery and two white women who are husband-hunting in Surinam. Through a discussion of the status of women in the period and of attitudes towards slavery, the editors demonstrated Southerne's complex attempt to explore a parallel between the conditions of slaves and women in contemporary society. They also consider the play in terms of Southerne's high Tory politics and in its own rights as effective drama. Based on a collection of seven editions published within Southerne's life-time, this modern edition includes a section on stage history, with an account of revisions and adaptations, and a detailed comparison between the play and its source in Aphra Behn's novella of the same name.
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1987955684
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (879 download)
Download or read book The Rover written by Aphra Behn and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aphra Behn's Oroonoko written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Bernbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Behn's "Oroonoko." written by Ernest Bernbaum and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521274210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Restoration Comedy in Performance written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781099574375
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (743 download)
Download or read book The Unfortunate Happy Lady written by Aphra Behn and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very English rendering of the classic Spanish novel La burlada Aminta y venganza del honor (Mocked Aminta and honor's vengence). Behn's story has a somewhat different beginning and a completely altered ending. Aminta, in her very early teens, becomes a rich orphan of Segovia. Her uncle, following her fathers will, takes charge of the property and brings his niece with him to Burgos...
Author : Mary Ann O'Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351957791
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Aphra Behn written by Mary Ann O'Donnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of publications that included her works, and of writings ascribed to her, along with an annotated bibliography of over 1600 works about her from 1671 to 2001, with an unannotated update covering 2002. The augmented primary bibliography describes all known editions and issues of her works to 1702, and adds a catalogue of editions to 2002, including on-line sources. The secondary bibliography adds close to 1000 items published since 1984 to the original 600 of the first edition along with about 175 more from 1671 to 1984, with attention to materials not in English. New appendices include a list of dedicatees, actors, recent productions (with reviews), and provenances. This volume will be invaluable for book dealers, collectors and librarians, as well as students and scholars of Aphra Behn and of Restoration literature.
