Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
Author: Aphra BehnPlays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108899226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and performed between 1682 and 1696, include city comedies (The City-Heiress, The Luckey Chance), a farce (The Emperor of the Moon), a tragicomedy (The Widdow Ranter), and a comedy of family inheritance (The Younger Brother). These plays exemplify Behn's skills in writing for individual performers, and exhibit the topical political engagement for which she is renowned. They witness to Behn's popularity with theatre audiences during the politically and financially difficult years of the 1680s and even after her death. Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn's work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the Restoration.
Aphra Behn
Author: Mary Ann O'DonnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351957791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of publications that included her works, and of writings ascribed to her, along with an annotated bibliography of over 1600 works about her from 1671 to 2001, with an unannotated update covering 2002. The augmented primary bibliography describes all known editions and issues of her works to 1702, and adds a catalogue of editions to 2002, including on-line sources. The secondary bibliography adds close to 1000 items published since 1984 to the original 600 of the first edition along with about 175 more from 1671 to 1984, with attention to materials not in English. New appendices include a list of dedicatees, actors, recent productions (with reviews), and provenances. This volume will be invaluable for book dealers, collectors and librarians, as well as students and scholars of Aphra Behn and of Restoration literature.
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
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Category : Behn, Aphra
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Negotiating Abolition
Author: Shawna HerzogPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350073229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843 explores how sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies in the region, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture or 'free' labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Straits Settlements of Southeast Asia. Through a history of early-19th century slavery and abolition in this often overlooked region in British imperial history, Herzog bridges a historiographical gap between colonial and modern slave systems. She discusses the dynamic intersectionality between perceptions of race, class, gender, and civilization within the Straits and how this informed behavior and policy regarding slavery, abolition, and prostitution within the settlement. This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
Author: Janet ToddPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813524559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
"Behn is a mass of contradictions: a high Tory who disliked traditional power structures; a powerful, autonomous woman who depended on men's approval; a woman who desired men and women and who became involved in intense political activity, yet craved case. This readable, fast-paced book uncovers Behn's assertive, duplicitous, sensual character and illustrates the openly erotic nature of her writings, her explorations of desire, sexual excitement and disappointment, which later made her a byword for lewdness. It reveals historical sources and court cases behind some of her most famous 'fictions'.".
A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce
Author: A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts
Author: Alexander DycePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338525289X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.