Book contents
- World-Making Renaissance Women
- World-Making Renaissance Women
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Literary Contours of Women’s World-Making
- Part I Early Modern Women Framing the Modern World
- Part II Remaking the Literary World
- Part III Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy
- Chapter 9 Royalism and Resistance: The Personal and the Political in Anne, Lady Halkett’s Meditations, 1660–1699
- Chapter 10 Hester Pulter’s Dissolving Worlds
- Chapter 11 The Feminist Worlds of Margaret Cavendish
- Chapter 12 “Augustus Reigns, but Poets Still Are Low”: Aphra Behn’s World in The Emperor of the Moon (1687)
- Part IV Rethinking Early Modern Types and Stereotypes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 12 - “Augustus Reigns, but Poets Still Are Low”: Aphra Behn’s World in The Emperor of the Moon (1687)
from Part III - Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- World-Making Renaissance Women
- World-Making Renaissance Women
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Literary Contours of Women’s World-Making
- Part I Early Modern Women Framing the Modern World
- Part II Remaking the Literary World
- Part III Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy
- Chapter 9 Royalism and Resistance: The Personal and the Political in Anne, Lady Halkett’s Meditations, 1660–1699
- Chapter 10 Hester Pulter’s Dissolving Worlds
- Chapter 11 The Feminist Worlds of Margaret Cavendish
- Chapter 12 “Augustus Reigns, but Poets Still Are Low”: Aphra Behn’s World in The Emperor of the Moon (1687)
- Part IV Rethinking Early Modern Types and Stereotypes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Research by a bevy of scholars over the last thirty years has established Aphra Behn’s importance to the study of early modern literary culture, supplementing and revising Virginia Woolf’s famous declaration that “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.” For nearly twenty years – a career ended only by her death in 1689 – Behn was a successful professional dramatist, having as many as twenty plays staged. She was also a talented poet, publishing in 1684 her Poems upon Several Occasions; writing verses for Aesop’s Fables (1687); editing two poetry collections that include some of her own work; and publishing many poems on public themes between 1685 and 1689.
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- World-Making Renaissance WomenRethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture, pp. 199 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021