Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Aphra Behn: The Documentary Record
- 2 Behn, women, and society
- 3 Aphra Behn and the Restoration theatre
- 4 The political poetry of Aphra Behn
- 5 Behn’s dramatic response to Restoration politics
- 6 Tragedy and tragicomedy
- 7 Behn and the unstable traditions of social comedy
- 8 The Cavalier myth in The Rover
- 9 ‘The story of the heart’: Love-letters between a Noble-Man and his Sister
- 10 Oroonoko: reception, ideology, and narrative strategy
- 11 ‘Others’, slaves, and colonists in Oroonoko
- 12 The short fiction (excluding Oroonoko)
- 13 Pastoral and lyric: Astrea in Arcadia
- 14 Aphra Behn’s French translations
- Further reading
- Index
- Series list
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Aphra Behn: The Documentary Record
- 2 Behn, women, and society
- 3 Aphra Behn and the Restoration theatre
- 4 The political poetry of Aphra Behn
- 5 Behn’s dramatic response to Restoration politics
- 6 Tragedy and tragicomedy
- 7 Behn and the unstable traditions of social comedy
- 8 The Cavalier myth in The Rover
- 9 ‘The story of the heart’: Love-letters between a Noble-Man and his Sister
- 10 Oroonoko: reception, ideology, and narrative strategy
- 11 ‘Others’, slaves, and colonists in Oroonoko
- 12 The short fiction (excluding Oroonoko)
- 13 Pastoral and lyric: Astrea in Arcadia
- 14 Aphra Behn’s French translations
- Further reading
- Index
- Series list
Summary
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- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn , pp. i - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004