219 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
219 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume of essays invites the reader to assess literary texts from within the frame of the texts' cultural history, which includes issues of authorship and literary or stage convention as well as the social and political institutions that shaped and marketed that literature. The collection initiates just such an in-depth and focused analysis of the complex literary and social history of the... Read more
Contents: Preface; Oroonoko: Birth of a paradigm, Moira Ferguson; Juggling the categories of race, class and gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Margaret W. Ferguson; 'The Fair Imoinda': domestic ideology and anti-slavery on the 18th-century stage, Jenifer B. Elmore; Cast-mistresses: the widow figure in Oroonoko, Kristina Bross and Kathryn Rummell; Owning Oroonoko: Behn, Southerne, and the contingencies of property, Laura J. Rosenthal; Reproducing Oroonoko: a case study in plagiarism, textual parallelism, and creative borrowing, Rhoda M. Trooboff; The 18th-century marketing of Oroonoko: contending constructions of Maecenas, the author and the slave, Susan B. Iwanisziw; Reviving Oroonoko 'in the scene': from Thomas Southerne to 'Biyi Bandele, Jessica Munns; Index.
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Susan B. Iwanisziw
