Aphra Behn's Afterlife

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-818494-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Aphra Behn, now becoming recognized as a major Restoration figure, is especially significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer: an important and often troubling role-model for later generations of women. This book shows that her influence on eighteenth-century literature was far-reaching. Because literary history was (and to an extent still is) based on notions of patrilineal succession, it has been difficult to recognize the generative work of women's texts among male writers. This book suggests that Behn had 'sons' as well as 'daughters' and argues that we need a feminist revision of the notion of literary influence. Behn's reputation was very different in different genres. The book analyses her reception as a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, showing how reactions to her became an important part of the creation of the English literary canon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spencer, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- PART I: REPUTATIONS

- Pleasure and Poetry: The Behn Myth

- The Novelist and the Poet

- PART II: INFLUENCES

- The Sons of Behn

- Her Wit, Without Her Shame: Women Writers after Behn

- PART III: RECEPTIONS

- The Rover

- Oroonoko

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

- Index