Approaches to teaching Behn's Oroonoko /
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 lite...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Language Association of America,
2014.
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| Series: | Approaches to teaching world literature ;
127. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 227 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781603291286 1603291288 9781603291279 160329127X |