6/29/2023 0 Comments Oroonoko the rover and other works![]() ![]() The most comprehensive biography is now Paula Backscheider’s Daniel Defoe: a Life (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).Įarlier studies stressing religious traditions behind Defoe are George Starr’s Defoe and Spiritual Biography (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965) ![]() There is nevertheless wide consensus on a select group of critical monographs over the last five decades some of these are noted below. Janet Todd (Harmordsworth: Penguin Books, 1992), p. See Gillian Beer, The Romance (London: Methuen, 1970) Īphra Behn, Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works, ed. See Ernest Bernbaum’s ‘Mrs Behn’s Biography, a Fiction’, PMLA 28 (1913), pp. The key work on Behn in the context of slavery is Moira Ferguson’s Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834 (London: Routledge, 1992), see especially ch. Two earlier critical biographies of Behn, necessarily speculative in view of the scant information available, are Maureen Duffy’s The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640–1689 (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1977)Īngeline Goreau’s Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn (New York: Dial Press, 1980). ![]()
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