Oroonoko

Oroonoko Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Duffy, Maureen. The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640-89. New York: Jonathan Cape, 1977.
  • Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
  • Goreau, Angeline. Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn. New York: Dial, 1980.
  • Brown, Laura. "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves," in Oroonoko. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

  • Chibka, Robert L. "Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction in Oroonoko," in Oroonoko. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

  • Ferguson, Margaret. "Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Women's Studies 19 (1991), 159-81.

  • Visconsi, Elliott. "A Degenerate Race: English Barbarism in Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' and 'The Widow Ranter'." ELH 69.3. 2002-01-01. 2006-05-24. <http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/elh/v069/69.3visconsi.html>.
  • Oddvar Holmesland. "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Cultural Dialectics and the Novel." ELH 68.1. 2001-01-01. 2006-05-24. <http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/elh/v068/68.1holmesland.html>.
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