Oroonoko : an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, Criticism

BEHN, Aphra

ISBN 10: 0393970140 / ISBN 13: 9780393970142

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, USA, 1997

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This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn's best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime. 'A Norton critical edition'. Edited by Joanna Lipking. Printed in gold on the rear wrapper it states, 'Instructor's Desk Copy'. xvi, 272pp. Bright, clean, unmarked copy, quite fresh. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Micro wear to a handful of tips to the top of pages. Unpacked weight, 310g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates based on specific destination and weight. Online estimates by the Listing Site may not be correct and either additional, or reduced postage may be required, particularly for particularly for heavier books for shipment to Canada and Overseas, but not usually to the USA. Questions? Quotes? - please email. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Oroonoko : an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, Criticism
• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company, USA
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0393970140
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780393970142
• Reliure: Card Wrappers
• Édition: Second Printing.
• État de l'article: About 'As New'
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Race, Racism, Slavery
  • Literary Criticism
  • Fiction - Literature

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Synopsis

This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn s best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime. The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes.

"Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Montaigne on America," "The Settling of Surinam," "Observers of Slavery, 1654 1712," "After Oroonoko: Noble Africans in Europe," and "Opinions on Slavery"-these selections create a revealing context for Behn s unusual story. Illustrations and maps are also included.

"Criticism" begins with an overview of responses to Behn and Oroonoko, from learned and popular writers of her time to Sir Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf, among others. Current critical interpretations are by William C. Spengemann, Jane Spencer, Robert L. Chibka, Laura Brown, Charlotte Sussman, and Mary Beth Rose.

A Chronology of Behn's life and a Selected Bibliography are included.

À propos de l?auteur

Aphra Behn flourished in the cosmopolitan world of the London playhouse and the court. It was she, Virginia Woolf wrote, "who earned [women] the right to speak their minds." Joanna Lipking is Lecturer in English at Northwestern University, where she has taught since 1979. A Columbia Ph.D., she writes on women's emergence in print culture. Her articles and reviews on Aphra Behn and other early women writers appear in Studies in the Eighteenth Century, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, and the recent Cambridge University Press collection, Aphra Behn Studies.