Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko

227 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 favourite. 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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9781603291286
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2013
• Größe: 226 x 150 mm
• Verlag: Modern Language Association of America
• Herausgegeben von: Mary Ann O'Donnell, Cynthia Richards