The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cover......Page 1
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 7
List of abbreviations......Page 10
Chronology......Page 11
1 Aphra Behn: the documentary record......Page 23
2 Behn, women, and society......Page 34
3 Aphra Behn and the Restoration theatre......Page 51
4 The political poetry of Aphra Behn......Page 68
5 Behn’s dramaticresponse to Restoration politics......Page 90
6 Tragedy and tragicomedy......Page 105
7 Behn and the unstable traditions of social comedy......Page 120
8 The Cavalier myth in The Rover......Page 140
9 ‘The story of the heart’: Love-letters between a Noble-Man\rand his Sister......Page 157
10 Oroonoko: reception, ideology, and narrative strategy......Page 173
11 ‘Others’, slaves, and colonists in Oroonoko......Page 188
12 The short fiction (excluding Oroonoko)......Page 210
13 Pastoral and lyric: Astrea in Arcadia......Page 226
14 Aphra Behn’s French translations......Page 243
Further reading......Page 257
Index......Page 265