Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave: Illustrated Edition
Title | Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave: Illustrated Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Aphra Behn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2021-08-24 |
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Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution. Behn, often cited as the first known professional female writer,[1] was a successful playwright, poet, translator and essayist. She began writing prose fiction in the 1680s, probably in response to the consolidation of theatres that led to a reduced need for new plays.[2] Published less than a year before she died, Oroonoko is sometimes described as one of the earliest English novels. Interest in it has increased since the 1970s, with critics arguing that Behn is the foremother of British women writers, and that Oroonoko is a crucial text in the history of the novel
Oroonoko
Title | Oroonoko PDF eBook |
Author | Aphra Behn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2020-10-17 |
Genre | |
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Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn, published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year
OROONOKO: THE ROYAL SLAVE
Title | OROONOKO: THE ROYAL SLAVE PDF eBook |
Author | Aphra Behn |
Publisher | e-artnow |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2017-12-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 8027233305 |
This eBook edition of "OROONOKO: THE ROYAL SLAVE" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a short novel by Aphra Behn, published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony. It is one of the earliest English novels. Interest in it has increased since the 1970s, critics arguing that Behn is the foremother of British women writers, and that Oroonoko is a crucial text in the history of the novel. Aphra Behn (1640–1689) was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, the first English professional female literary writer. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature. Along with Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood, she is sometimes referred to as part of "The fair triumvirate of wit." Behn's work Oroonoko (1688) is critically acknowledged as important to the development of the English novel. She was also a key writer in seventeenth century theatre. She is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her short novel.
Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko
Title | Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Richards |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1603291717 |
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.
Oroonoko the Royal Slave Illustrated
Title | Oroonoko the Royal Slave Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | Aphra Behn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2019-09-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781691720316 |
"Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.Behn, often cited as the first known professional female writer, [1] was a successful playwright, poet, translator and essayist. She began writing prose fiction in the 1680s, probably in response to the consolidation of theatres that led to a reduced need for new plays.[2] Published less than a year before she died, Oroonoko is sometimes described as one of the earliest English novels. Interest in it has increased since the 1970s, with critics arguing that Behn is the foremother of British women writers, and that Oroonoko is a crucial text in the history of the novel
Oroonoko Illustrated
Title | Oroonoko Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | Aphra Behn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2020-11-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn, published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. It was also adapted into a play.
Oroonoko
Title | Oroonoko PDF eBook |
Author | Aphra Behn |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2021-04-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
"Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.Behn, often cited as the first known professional female writer, [1] was a successful playwright, poet, translator and essayist. She began writing prose fiction in the 1680s, probably in response to the consolidation of theatres that led to a reduced need for new plays.[2] Published less than a year before she died, Oroonoko is sometimes described as one of the earliest English novels. Interest in it has increased since the 1970s, with critics arguing that Behn is the foremother of British women writers, and that Oroonoko is a crucial text in the history of the novel"