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The second English translation of La Rochefoucauld's maxims was made by Mrs Aphra Behn, a woman who is now admired as England's first professional female author. This facing-page bilingual edition offers an accurate translation of the text, an introduction and extensive annotations of the maxims. ... Read more

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During the 19 years of her play-writing career, Aphra Behn had far more new plays staged than anyone else. This book is the first to examine all her theatrical work. It explains her often dominant place in the complex theatrical culture of Charles II's reign, her divided political sympathies, and her interests as a free-thinking intellectual. It also reveals her to be a brilliant theatrical practitioner who used the seen as richly and significantly as the spoken. ... Read more

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The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Aphra Behn is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Aphra Behn then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Aphra Behn was England's first professional woman writer, but her status as a major author has only recently become clear.Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries Behn was denigrated for her "unwomanly" subject matter and intellectual immodesty. In the twentieth century she has been increasingly viewed as a leading dramatist of the Restoration and a founder of the English novel.This collection forms an important resource for those studying seventeenth century English literature and drama, and for those interested in the development of women's writing. ... Read more

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Ever since Virginia Woolf proclaimed that all women writers should place flowers on her grave, Aphra Behn has slowly become recognized as the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing. In this first book-length critical work on Aphra Behn, a range of contributors explore the ways in which Behn is now entering the canon of English literature and examine the significance of her writing in the contexts of both seventeenth-century English literature and contemporary debates in critical feminist theory.

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Subject in excellent condition, well maintained, clean and nice, almost like new. The book "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: In a New Adaptation by Biyi Bandele - Thomas" doesn't present the typical symptoms of second, but the characteristics of a book in a state of perfect condition.

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Need to already have her poems
Aphra Behn was a female poet who is barely remembered today. A contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe. Reasonably well known in her time. Which was quite an achievement in the 1600s.

Stapleton tries to bring Behn's works back from the shades, to greater appreciation by us. He presents detailed critical analysis of the works, and compares them favourably to others by her male contemporaries. He assumes that you are already mostly familiar with her poems, and that you have access to them. The book is an analysis, not an anthology. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

N013192



London : printed for John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, and Francis Clay, in trust for Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington, 1729. 96p. ; 12° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

T170317

Anonymous. By Aphra Behn.Letters purporting to have passed between Forde Grey, Earl of Tankerville, and his sister-in-law, Lady Henrietta Berkeley.

London : printed by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-street, MDCCXXXV. [1735]. 283 p. ; 2° ... Read more

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The most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The works included--The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam, The History of the Nun, The Adventure of the Black Lady, and The Unfortunate Bride--are complemented by a generous selection of her poetry from public political verse to lyrics and witty conversation poems. ... Read more

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Juicy Eurocentrism
Ideal for the author - is - dead scholarship.Whatever the ideological positon of the Royalist Restoration woman writer, one can critique the Eurocentrism of the narrator or applaud the subversive terrain of the novelas it depicts the slave rebellion.One may react with contempt at thenarration of a sordid tale of slave contained or praise the novelist forhaving the foresight to hint at the importance of the colonial enterpriseto the themother country at a time when few other cannonized writers weredoing that. ... Read more

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This edition of the paly provides texts,notes and critical material for the A-level and university student ... Read more

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Er. Madam, that grief the better is sustain'd, That's for a loss that never yet was gain'd: You only lose a man that does not know How great the Honour is which you bestow: Who dares not hope you love, or if he did, Your greatness would his just return forbid; His humbler thoughts durst ne're to you aspire, At most he would presume but to admire; Or if it chanc'd he durst more daring prove, You still must languish in concealed love. ... Read more