Behn, Aphra: Oroonoko - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Baker, Ernest A. "Mrs. Behn and Some English Anti-Romances." In The History of the English Novel, Volume III: The Later Romances and the Establishment of Realism, pp. 79–106. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1950.

Provides an overview of Behn's career and argues that Oroonoko "has made a … mark on literary history by virtue of the humanitarian feeling that pervades it."

Ballaster, Ros. "New Hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: The Body, the Text, and the Feminist Critic." In New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts, edited by Isobel Armstrong, pp. 283–95. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.

Argues that the literary criticism of Oroonoko has shaped contemporary feminist criticism.

Chikba, Robert L. "'Oh! Do Not Fear a Woman's Invention': Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko," Texas Studies in...

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