Oroonoko US edition

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-312-10813-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Bedford Cultural Editions Series

This edition of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko features a generous selection of thematically organised historical materials including explorers' descriptions of the 'new world' of the Caribbean, planters' accounts of the sugar colonies, first-hand accounts of the slave trade from Dutch and English traders and abducted Africans and early abolitionist publications by Europeans and former slaves. Excerpts from works by Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Richard Steele and Daniel Defoe enrich students' understanding of the literary contexts for Behn's portrayal of 'blackness' in Oroonoko.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behn, Aphra

Gallagher, Catherine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE.- Oroonoko: The Complete Text.- Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background.- Chronology of the Slave Trade and Behn's Life and Times.- Note on the Text.- Oroonoko; Or The Royal Slave.- PART TWO.- Adaptations of Oroonoko.- Literary Contexts.- Africa in the Triangular Trade.- The Caribbean in the Triangular Trade.- Britain in the Triangular Trade.

Über Autor(innen)

CATHERINE GALLAGHER is Eggers Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.