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Aphra Behn: New Casebooks

Autor Janet Todd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 apr 1999
Aphra Behn's work has always been subject to critical fashion and her literary reputation was only really secured in the closing decade of this century, especially by new historicist and feminist critics. The essays collected here represent the best of a range of contemporary critical views, discussing both Behn's drama and her prose writings. Janet 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 twentieth century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333720219
ISBN-10: 0333720210
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: further reading, notes, index
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1999
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria New Casebooks

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

JANET TODD is a Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia. A former fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Professor at Rutgers University, she has also taught at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and the University of Puerto Rico.

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Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction;  J.Todd Who Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra Behn;  C.Gallagher Gestus   and Signature in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover';   E.Diamond 'Suspect my loyalty when I lose my virtue': Sexual Politics and Party in Aphra Behn's Plays of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-83;   S.J.Owen Spectacular Death: History and Story in 'The Widow Ranter';   J.Todd 'But to the touch were soft': Pleasure, Power and Impotence in 'The Disappointment' and 'The Golden Age';   J.Munns Desire and the Uncoupling of Myth in Behn's Erotic Poems;   C.Barash Gender and Narrative in the Fiction of Aphra Behn;   J.Pearson Love-Letters:   Engendering Desire;   R.Ballaster Beyond Incest: Gender and the Politics of Transgression in Aphra Behn's 'Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister';   E.Pollak The Romance of Empire: 'Oroonoko' and the Trade in Slaves;   L.Brown Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko'; M.Ferguson Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.

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The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth -century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy.
Praise for the first hardback edition:
"Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time." --the New York Times
"Ground-breaking--it reads quickly and lightly. Even Todd's throwaway lines are steeped in learning and observation." --Ruth Perry, MIT, Women's Review of Books
"A major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers." --Times Higher Education Supplement
"Fascinating, a page-turner and a delight, an astonishingly thorough book." --Emma Donoghue
"All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn. . . . For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." --Virginia Woolf
Aphra Behn, a spy in the Netherlands and the Americas, was the first professional woman writer. The most prolific dramatist of her age, innovative novelist, translator, lyrical and erotic poet, she expresses a frank sexuality addressing impotence, orgasm and bisexuality, whilst serving as political propagandist for the monarch.
This revised biography of the extraordinary, ground-breaking writer, who is emblematic of the Restoration period, a time of masks and self-fashioning, is set in conflict-ridden England, Europe, and in the mismanaged slave colonies, following the Puritan republic in 1660.
Janet Todd, novelist and internationally renowned scholar, was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a Professor at Rutgers, NJ. An expert on women's writing and feminism, she has published on many writers, including Jane Austen, the Shelley Circle, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Aphra Behn.