Further Reading
- Baker, Ernest A., "Mrs. Behn and Some English Anti-Romances," The History of the English Novel, Volume III: The Later Romances and the Establishment of Realism, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1950, pp. 79–106. (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, London and New York: Routledge, 1992, pp. 283–95. (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 Literature and Language 30, No. 4 (Winter 1988): 510–37. (Argues that the question of validity in Oroonoko* blurs its significance as fiction depicting ideology.)
- Duffy, Maureen, "Oroonoko," in The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640–89, London: Methuen, 1989, pp. 269–83. (Discusses the political context in which Oroonoko was written.)
- Ferguson, Margaret W., "Juggling the Categories of Race, Class, and Gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko," Women's Studies 19, No. 2 (1991): 159–81. (Discusses the role of gender, race, and class in Behn's depiction of power relations in Oroonoko*.)
- Guffey, George, "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Occasion and Accomplishment," in Two English Novelists: Aphra Behn and Anthony Trollope, Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, May 11, 1974, edited by George Guffey and Andrew Wright, Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, 1975, pp. 3–41. (Considers the political ramifications of Oroonoko.)
- Hill, Rowland M., "Aphra Behn's Use of Setting," Modern Language Quarterly 7, No. 2 (June 1946): 189–203. (Remarks on Behn's attempts to achieve realism in her works through her choice of setting.)
- MacCarthy, B. G., Women Writers: Their Contribution to the English Novel 1621–1744, Oxford: Cork University Press, 1946, 288 p. (Treats Behn in several chapters, examining her contribution to the novel genre and her role among women writers.)
- Pacheco, Anita, "Royalism and Honor in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko," Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 34, No. 3 (Summer 1994): 491–506. (Argues that the intent of Oroonoko* is pro-Royalist rather than abolitionist.)
- Paxman, David, "Oral and Literate Discourse in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko," Restoration 18, No. 2 (Fall 1994): 88–103. (Interprets Oroonoko* as an exposition on power and politics in Restoration England.)
- Pearson, Jacqueline, "Gender and Narrative in the Fiction of Aphra Behn," The Review of English Studies XLII, No. 165 (February 1991): 40–56. (Focuses on the role of the narrator in Behn's works and her treatment of such issues as gender and power.)
- Ramsaran, J. A., "Oroonoko: A Study of the Factual Elements," Notes and Queries 7, No. 4 (April 1960): 142–45. (Considers various arguments regarding the factual accuracy of Oroonoko.)
- Reynolds, Myra, "Dramatic Writers," in The Learned Lady in England, Gloucester, Mass: Peter Smith, 1964, pp. 127–36. (Considers Behn's importance as a woman writer and the contribution that Oroonoko made to the novel genre.)
- Seeber, Edward D., "Oroonoko and Crusoe's Man Friday," Modern Language Quarterly 12, No. 3 (September 1951): 286–91. (Notes parallels between Oroonoko and William Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Seeber suggests that Behn's work may have influenced Defoe's choice of setting and his description of Friday.)
- Spender, Dale, "Aphra Behn," in Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers before Jane Austen, New York: Pandora Press, 1986, pp. 47–66. (Discusses the major themes of Behn's works and remarks on the difficulties she faced as a woman writer.)
- Sypher, Wylie, "A Note on the Realism of Mrs. Behn's Oroonoko," Modern Language Quarterly 3, No. 3 (September 1942): 401–05. (Argues that Behn's detailed and accurate description of slave conditions in Oroonoko* suggests that she may indeed have lived in Surinam at some time.)
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