Aphra Behn StudiesJanet Todd Cambridge University Press, 28.03.1996 - 334 Seiten Aphra Behn was England's first professional woman writer, but her status as a major author has only recently become clear. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Behn was denigrated for her 'unwomanly' subject matter and intellectual immodesty. In the twentieth century she has been increasingly viewed as an important dramatist and poet of the Restoration and a founder of the English novel. This book sets Behn firmly in an historical context of political factions, theatre developments and colonial encounters, and includes chapters on each of the genres in which she wrote: drama, fiction, poetry and translation, and on other aspects of her life, from her publishing struggles to her involvement in American slavery. It is an important resource for those studying seventeenth-century English literature and drama, and to those interested in the development of women's writing. |
Inhalt
Introduction JANET TODD | 1 |
Sexual politics and party politics in Behns drama 167883 15 | 15 |
The Feignd Curtizans in context 30 | 30 |
false counts and pageant 50 | 50 |
Behn and the use of theatre 66 | 66 |
The Rover and the eighteenth century 84 | 84 |
poetry and masquerade 109 | 109 |
For when the act is done and finisht cleane what 130 | 130 |
the politics of translation 154 | 154 |
pleasure power and 178 | 178 |
Who is Silvia? What is she? Feminine identity in Aphra 199 | 199 |
Aphra Behns published 285 | 285 |
New light on the background and early life of Aphra Behn 310 | 310 |
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