Aphra Behn (1640-89)

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Literary Criticism

Donald, Jennifer. Introduction to Aphra Behn from the Literary Encyclopedia, 26 July 2004. On Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave (1688)

Macdonald, Joyce Green. "Race, Women, and the Sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko," [Thomas Southerne's 1696 dramatization of Behn's novella]. Criticism, Fall, 1998

Pigg, Daniel. "Trying to frame the unframable: Oroonoko as discourse in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1997

Todd, Janet. A review of The Secret Life of Aphra Behn, reviewed by Fletcher, Loraine, The New Statesman, Dec 6, 1996 (removed from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4313_v125/ai_19138523)

Velissariou, Aspasia. "'Tis pity that when laws are faulty they should not be mended or abolisht': Authority, legitimations, and honor in Aphra Behn's The Widdow Ranter," Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 2002



Internet Texts, Bibliography, and Web Sites

Aphra Behn website by Dr. Ruth Nestvold. Contains a timeline and critical articles

For a list of works by this author available on the internet as etexts, see the On-Line Books Page, a search engine for finding internet full texts

An academic list of Eighteenth-Century Resources, from Jack Lynch, Rutgers

Aphra Behn Bibliography, by Mary Ann O'Donnell, Manhattan College, 10 June 2000, from Bibliographies Online (removed from http://c18.net/biblio/behn.html)



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