ENGL 201G: British Literature: Aphra Behn

Library Catalog ("SpartaCat").  To find  books containing essays on your author's works, use SpartaCat to search the author's name as Subject . The catalog will point you to items that you can borrow from the Stacks, as well as items available from our Reference area. 

REFERENCE

• World Literature Criticism: 500 to the present - PN 523 .W67 1992

BOOKS

• Aphra Behn, PR3317.Z5 L5 1968

E-BOOKS

• Aphra Behn's afterlife by Jane Spencer, 2000
• Seductive forms:  women's amatory fiction from 1684-1740 by Ros Ballaster, 1992 

WEBSITE

The Aphra Behn Page.  Includes article "The White Mistress and the Black Slave:  Alphra Behn, Racism and the Beginnings of Novelistic Discourse" by Ruth Nestvold, 1995.

PROQUEST

When you search ProQuest (enter "Oroonoko" in the first search row, and "literary criticism" in the second search row), you will find articles containing critical analysis of Aphra Behn's work Oroonoko.  Below are examples of three articles.

• "Royalism and Honor in Aprah Behn's Oroonoko" by Anita Pacheco.  Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Summer 1994.
• "Frightful Spectacles of a Mangled King:  Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Narration Through Theater" by Marta Figlerowicz.  New Literary History, Spring 2008. 
• "Reviving Oroonoko" by Khary Polk.  The Journal of Negro History, Summer 2008.

EBSCOHOST

When you search EBSCOhost (enter "Oroonoko" in the first search row, and "Behn" in the second search row), here is an example of what you might find. 

• Juggling the categories of race, class and gender:  Aphra Behn's Oroonoko" by Margaret W. Ferguson.  Women's Studies, August 1991.