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Title:

Troping Oroonoko from Behn to Bandele / edited by Susan B. Iwanisziw.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiv, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Behn, Aphra,--1640-1689.--Oroonoko.
Behn, Aphra,--1640-1689--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Behn, Aphra,--1640-1689--Influence.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Slave trade in literature.
Princes in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Suriname--In literature.
Africa--In literature.

Other Authors:

Iwanisziw, Susan B., 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 eighteenth-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 eighteenth-century marketing of Oroonoko: contending contructions of Maecenas, the author and the slave / Susan B. Iwanisziw -- Reviving Oroonoko 'in the scene': from Thomas Southerne to 'Biyi Bendele / Jessica Munns

ISBN:

9780754634591 (alk. paper)
0754634590 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52090593

LCCN:

2003048927

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)