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Approaches to teaching Behn's Oroonoko
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- Book Synopsis
- Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favourite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides not only resources for the teacher of Oroonoko but also a brief chronology of Behn's life and work. In part 2, "Approaches," essays offer a diversity of perspectives appropriate to a text that challenges student assumptions and contains not one story but many: Oroonoko as a romance, as a travel account, as a heroic tragedy, as a window to seventeenth-century representations of race, as a reflection of Tory-Whig conflict in the time of Charles II.
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- ISBN
- 9781603291279
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Modern Language Association of America, (30 January 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 227
- Weight
- 461 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
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