Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko |
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Editor:
| Cynthia Richards, O'Donnell, Mary Ann Richards, Cynthia |
Contribution by:
| Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan, Ana de Freitas Boe, Erik Bond, Keith M. Botelho, Vincent Carretta, Ashley Cross, Doyle, Laura Gevirtz, Karen Hughes, Derek Juengel, Scott J. Krise, Thomas W. MacDonald, Joyce Green Martin, Roberta C. Maurer, Shawn Lisa Milling, Jane Munns, Jessica Nelson, Holly Faith Overton, Bill Richardson, Leslie Rosenthal, Laura J. Rubik, Margarete Runge, Laura L. Spencer, Jane Stevens, Laura M. Turner, James Grantham Zimbardo, Rose |
Series title: | Approaches to Teaching World Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-60329-172-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Publisher: | Modern Language Association of America
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.