... 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...