...This chapter traces the metamorphosis of Oroonoko into a vehicle for anti-slavery sentiment, showing how this change coincided with a tendency to play down the significance of Aphra Behn as narrator and as author. Abolitionists had very little to say about Behn herself...

...This chapter examines the role of sacral objects or fetishes in the production of sovereignty. Examining Behn’s Oroonoko in conjunction with two of her dramatic works (The Widow Ranter and The Roundheads), it explores the use of “magical” objects...

....” Numerous other African nobles and royal slaves followed in Oroonoko's wake, whose stories were meant to affirm an older, romance-like recognition — all the more powerful for being cross-racial — of certain essential character traits associated with “noble” status. It is an odd fact...

... that could possibly merit modern revival, however, is Thomas Southerne's long-popular Oroonoko, his most ambitious and complex study of moral and cultural dislocation. The dislocation is explicitly given a moral and symbolic quality, for Oroonoko's ancestral sun-worship...

...The first chapter examines Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688). This early narrative shows that the forms of character construction traced throughout the book accompany the emergent novel from the outset. The chapter complicates Martha Nussbaum’s accounts of the novel as a means...

...This chapter examines the depiction of literacy as a form of colonization in Aphra Behn's Widdow Ranter and Oroonoko. It compares Behn's reflections on empires and on literacy in imperial context with those of Elizabeth Cary and suggests that Behn's vision...

... religious skepticism in many of her best-known works, including her pastoral poem “The Golden Age”; her play The Rover; and her novels Oroonokoand Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister. It argues that Behn's attraction to freethinking...

... with alterity. Perhaps no other narrative exemplifies the entwined conditions of experiencing novelty and novel writing than Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688). The chapter also investigates how, as novelty's recurring partner, fashion operated as a powerful agent for fictions of eighteenth-century...

... America. The chapter also provides additional insight into Sloane's essay by comparing it to prose narratives such as Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657, 1673), Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave. A True History...

...Aphra Behn was a significant influence on 18th-century literature and theatre. As the author of one of the most popular Restoration comedies, she was influential in British theatre, and as the originator of the powerful Oroonoko myth, she had a much wider-reaching impact. In part that impact must...

...This chapter discusses and considers the representation of the author in print. It probes the mystique of a bodiless medium that holds out promises of sovereignty and anonymity in the midst of commodification. Oroonoko, Behn's romance of the sovereign in the marketplace...

... Hawkesworth’s theatrical adaptation of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko in Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1760s, explaining how the literary representation of what Ramesh Mallipeddi calls the enslaved person’s “spectacular suffering” shaped both anti-slavery sentiment and the appropriation of that sentiment...

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... for stage productions, including adaptations of Behn’s fictions, such as Oroonoko by Thomas Southerne. Behn set several of her short fictions in continental nunneries with scandalous heroines, while other fiction writers insisted on a didactic message. Dampier’s travel narratives created...

...This chapter examines Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia, alongside needlework and beadwork from the seventeenth century that depict four-continent iconography. Four-continent iconography was likely borrowed from the graphics of printed maps, one...

... of —methods of enslaved women suicide Oroonoko royal slave theme of Southerne Thomas Imoinda Gentleman's Magazine Sessarakoo Prince William The Royal Prince —desecration practices and Sussman Charlotte Virginia mens rea proslavery and suicide Thistlewood Thomas African Americans and suicide...

... of marronnage in the Americas, and readings of Behn’s Oroonokoand Voltaire’s Candide. Exodus fugitivity Rousseau Jean Jacques Constitutional Project for Corsica slavery Wokler Robert autarky countercosmopolitanism impurity interdependence legitimate liberty...

... England japanning Oroonoko Behn Surinam in Oroonoko James II The Plain Dealer Wycherley Wycherley William Steele Sir Richard Charles II The Female Tatler Manley Delarivier Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality Manley Signior Dildo Rochester Foucault Michel The History...

... and of Oroonoko up until 1800. The decisive shift in Behn's reputation as a novelist came with the novel's rise in status in the middle years of the century. In particular, the moralization of popular fiction, already under way with Penelope Aubin's work in the 1720s and consolidated by Samuel Richardson...