Aphra Behn's AfterlifeOxford University Press, 2000 - 309 pàgines Aphra Behn, now becoming recognized as a major Restoration figure, is especially significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer. This book analyses her reception as a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, demonstrating her far-reaching influence on eighteenth-century literature and on the formation of the English literary canon. |
Continguts
Introduction I | 1 |
The Behn Myth 19 68 | 19 |
The Dramatist and the Novelist | 62 |
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Aphra Behn's Afterlife Jane Spencer,Senior Lecturer in English Literature Jane Spencer Previsualització limitada - 2000 |
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Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre: Women's Comedy and the Theatre Nancy Eileen Copeland Previsualització no disponible - 2004 |