Named as Outstanding Academic Book of 2001 by Choice
Aphra Behn's Afterlife
Jane Spencer
Price: £78.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818494-2
Publication date: 23 November 2000
320 pages, frontispiece, 216x138 mm
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| - 'Jane Spencer's erudite and entertaining book offers an important argument about gender and influence and brings an exceptional grasp of historical nuance to Behn's works themselves and the various ways in which they were coopted by later writers in the service of a range of different agendas ... Jane Spencer's book will be a model for all later studies of gender and literary influence.' - The
Seventeenth Century
- 'Spencer's book is original in its argument, wide-ranging in its frame of reference, and written in elegant and lucid prose. It makes an important contribution to Aphra Behn studies and the history of women's writing more generally. It will have a lasting impact, too, on the study of cultural transmission and canon formation in the eighteenth century and beyond.' - Review of English Studies
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| Description | | - Examines the work of Aphra Behn, a professional woman playwright in an almost exclusively male theatre, and her complex influence on later writers.
- Covers her poetry and novels as well as plays.
- An important study of gender-perceptions and their literary effects.
| | Aphra Behn, now becoming recognized as a major Restoration figure, is especially significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer: an important and often troubling role-model for later generations of women. This book shows that her influence on eighteenth-century literature was far-reaching. Because literary history was (and to an extent still is) based on notions of
patrilineal succession, it has been difficult to recognize the generative work of women's texts among male writers. This book suggests that Behn had 'sons' as well as 'daughters' and argues that we need a feminist revision of the notion of literary influence. Behn's reputation was very different in different genres. The book analyses her reception as a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, showing
how reactions to her became an important part of the creation of the English literary canon. |
Readership: Scholars and students of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century drama, English literature, and women's studies.
| Contents |
Introduction
PART I: REPUTATIONS
Pleasure and Poetry: The Behn Myth
The Novelist and the Poet
PART II: INFLUENCES
The Sons of Behn
Her Wit, Without Her Shame: Women Writers after Behn
PART III: RECEPTIONS
The Rover
Oroonoko
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Jane Spencer, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Exeter
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