Aphra Behn's AfterlifeOxford University Press, 2000 - 309 páginas Aphra Behn, now becoming recognized as a major Restoration figure, is especially significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer: an important and often troubling role-model for later generations of women. This book shows that her influence on eighteenth-century literature was far-reaching. Because literary history was (and to an extent still is) based on notions of patrilineal succession, it has been difficult to recognize the generative work of women's texts among male writers. This book suggests that Behn had 'sons' as well as 'daughters' and argues that we need a feminist revision of the notion of literary influence. Behn's reputation was very different in different genres. The book analyses her reception as a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, showing how reactions to her became an important part of the creation of the English literary canon. |
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... comedy The Tender Husband , which only just managed to be performed more often than the other 1670s comedies . This may , of course , have affected the great reformer's attitude to his ' luscious ' female rival.28 The Rover's success in ...
... comedy The Tender Husband , which only just managed to be performed more often than the other 1670s comedies . This may , of course , have affected the great reformer's attitude to his ' luscious ' female rival.28 The Rover's success in ...
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... comedy , 52 and her early plays , in particular , indicate how perva- sive Behn's presence was . In The Perjur'd Husband characters refer casually to Behn's poetry , clearly indicating its fashionable nature : the maid Lucy reports that ...
... comedy , 52 and her early plays , in particular , indicate how perva- sive Behn's presence was . In The Perjur'd Husband characters refer casually to Behn's poetry , clearly indicating its fashionable nature : the maid Lucy reports that ...
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... Comedy . As it is Acted at the New - Theatre in Lincoln's - Inn - Fields , by Her Majesty's Servants ( London : W. Turner and W. Davis et al . , 1705 ) . The Platonick Lady . A Comedy . As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay ...
... Comedy . As it is Acted at the New - Theatre in Lincoln's - Inn - Fields , by Her Majesty's Servants ( London : W. Turner and W. Davis et al . , 1705 ) . The Platonick Lady . A Comedy . As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
The Behn Myth 19 68 | 19 |
The Dramatist and the Novelist | 62 |
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Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre: Women's Comedy and the Theatre Nancy Eileen Copeland Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |