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Oroonoko
A Norton Critical Edition
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Oroonoko
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.
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The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes.
Historical Backgrounds is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonisers 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 provided 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.
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Oroonoko by Aphra Behn is often praised for its poignant exploration of colonialism and slavery, capturing readers with its tragic narrative and vivid character portrayal. Critics appreciate Behn's innovative storytelling and the novel's reflection on moral and social issues of the 17th century. While some reviews highlight the complexity and rich emotional depth of the story, others note its historical significance in shaping early English literature.
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ISBN: 9780393970142
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 February 1997
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Edition: Critical edition
Contributors:
- Edited by Joanna Lipking
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 213.0mm
Weight: 245g
Pages: 288
About the Author
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.
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