TY  - BOOK
AU  - Behn,Aphra
AU  - Lipking,Joanna
TI  - Oroonoko: an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, criticism 
T2  - A Norton critical edition
SN  - 0393970140 (pbk.)
AV  - PR3317 .O7 1997
U1  - 823.4 ORO 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Fiction
KW  - SLSH
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - Slave trade in literature
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Princes
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Suriname
KW  - Africa
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272); 	The text of Oroonoko, or The royal slave: a true history --
Historical backgrounds --
Criticism --
Aphra Behn: a chronology. Contents of "Criticism" section: To Anne Wharton / Bishop Burnet (December 19, 1682) --
To the admir'd Astrea / Charles Cotton (1686) --
A pindarick to Mrs. Behn on her poem on the coronation / written by a lady --
The "Athenian Society" to a woman's love query (1694) --
Dedication to Oroonoko / Thomas Southerne (1696) --
Memoirs on the life of Mrs. Behn / written by a gentlewoman of her acquaintance (1696) --
[Excerpt] from The lives of the poets / Theophilus Cibber, et al. (1753) --
[Excerpt] from Biographia Britannica / Andrew Kippis (1780) --
[Excerpt] from The progress of romance / Clara Reeve (1785) --
[Excerpt] from Lockhart's Life of Scott / Walter Scott (1837) --
Literary garbage (1872) --
Impassioned protest / Algernon Swinburne (1894) --
A very inflammable disposition / George Saintsbury (1913) --
A born Bohemian / V. Sackville-West (1927) --
The freedom of the mind / Virginia Woolf (1929) --
An astonishing masterpiece / George Sherburn (1948) --
The earliest American novel: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / William C. Sprengemann --
The woman novelist as heroine / Jane Spencer --
Truth, falsehood, and fiction in Oroonoko / Robert L. Chibka --
The romance of empire: Oroonoko and the trade in slaves / Laura Brown --
The other problem with women: reproduction and slave culture in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Charlotte Sussman --
Gender and the heroics of endurance in Oroonoko / Mary Beth Rose; English; English
N2  - 	
Presents the original 1688 text of the classic work by Aphra Behnabout the slave trade in the seventeenth century, and includes textual notes, historical backgrounds on settlers, slaves, and slavers, opinions on slavery by John Locke and others, and critical essays
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ER  -