Derek Hughes / Janet Todd (eds.)

The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

Herausgeber: Hughes, Derek; Todd, Janet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration, providing more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influencing the development of the novel. Behn's work straddles the genres of drama, fiction, poetry and translation. With its full bibliography, detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life, this Companion is essential to studying her work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521527200
• ISBN-10: 0521527201
• Artikelnr.: 21481788

Autorenporträt

Derek Hughes is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
Janet Todd is Francis Hutcheson Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology Mary Ann O'Donnell
1. Aphra Behn: the documentary record Mary Ann O'Donnell
2. Behn, women and society Susan Staves
3. Aphra Behn and the Restoration theatre Derek Hughes
4. The political poetry of Aphra Behn Melinda S. Zook
5. Behn's dramatic response to Restoration politics Susan J. Owen
6. Tragedy and tragicomedy Janet Todd and Derek Hughes
7. Behn and the unstable traditions of social comedy Robert Markley
8. The Cavalier myth in The Rover Helen M. Burke
9. 'The Story of the heart': Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister Ros Ballaster
10. Oroonoko: reception, ideology, and narrative strategy Laura J. Rosenthal
11. 'Others', slaves and colonists in Oroonoko Joanna Lipking
12. The short fiction (excluding Oroonoko) Jacqueline Pearson
13. Pastoral and Lyric: Astrea in Arcadia Jessica Munns
14. Aphra Behn's French translations Line Cottegnies
Further reading.