Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works by Behn, Aphra

Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140433388)

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Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works by Behn, Aphra

Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works

$15.00
Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works by Behn, Aphra

Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn's visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author's romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples 'in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin'. The novel also reveals Behn's ambiguous attitude to African slavery - while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England's power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.

Author: Aphra Behn
ISBN-10: 0140433384
ISBN-13: 9780140433388
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.11w x 0.95d
By Aphra Behn
By Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn (c. 1640-1689), born in Kent, England, claimed to have visited the British colony of Surinam, where Oroonoko is set. She wrote poetry, short stories, stage plays, and political propaganda for the Tory party, as well as her great amorous and political novel, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister.

Janet Todd is Francis Hutcheson Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow and an honorary fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

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