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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Aphra Behn"”.
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Astraea Unmasked: The Desires of Aphra Behn
… project consists of a one character play about Aphra Behn (ca. 1640-1689), the first Englishwoman to write professionally, and is accompanied by a video of a performance of the monologue. Behn came to prominence during the English Restoration period and although best known as a playwright, she …
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Piety and Puritanism in the Plays of the Poetess-Punk Aphra Behn
… religious themes within the following of Aphra Behn's plays: The Lucky Chance, The Feigned Courtesans, The Rover, The Emperor of the Moon, and The Widdow Ranter; Or The History of Bacon in Virginia. Since the feminist recovery of her works in the late twentieth century, Behn has become a …
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
… as represented in selected works of Aphra Behn.</p> <p>Perhaps the best representations of female trickster figures in early modem literature are found in the works of English playwright, novelist, and poet Aphra Behn (1640-1689). In her own life choices Behn herself stepped outside …
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Cabalas and Cabals in Restoration Popular Literature
… of these unstable years. Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn seize upon the power and flexibility these words and their associations afford to turn them into generative devices to create and seize authority for themselves and for their opinions. In this process, Cavendish and Behn expand the ways …
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Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's The Rover and The Feign d Courtezans.
… politics. Nevertheless, the Lady Cavaliers in Aphra Behn s comedies The Rover and The Feign d Courtezans enacted a fruitful rhetorical strategy in order to be equal to men. Woman who is depicted through masculine discourse as the mute other becomes in Behn s plays the subject who dares to …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… project investigates how and why the novelists Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley literalized the dialectics of certain moral philosophers. This research asserts that the novelists adopted the structure of the three-stage moral …
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Appropriating the Restoration hero(ine): intertextuality and the transformation of gender identity, 1677-1759
… and plays, focusing primarily on the work of Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, John Dryden, Samuel Richardson and David Garrick. Previous scholarship on Restoration ""she-tragedies"" has tended to emphasize how their heroines’ descent into hysteria, madness, and death implies a total loss of …
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Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women
… Haywood, Susanna Centlivre, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, and Jane Wiseman, the dissertation examines issues of interpersonal violence and communal violence committed by women.
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
… ‘Turk’ plays by Robert Greene (1558-1592) and by Aphra Behn (1640-1689). Their work, I argue, reframes the way in which Ottomans were physically assimilated into English society and, thus, English culture. This study meets a major need in the field of early modern English drama in identifying and …
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THE "OTHER" WOMAN: EARLY MODERN ENGLISH REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, 1579-1690
… claims to American land. Chapter 3 examines how Aphra Behn and Mary Rowlandson reflect changing attitudes about Native Americans through their use of similarity to convey colonial anxieties about safety and cultural degradation as opposed to earlier depictions of similarity to convey a reassuring …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… on absolute sexual virtue. By placing novels by Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood at the center of the history of the novel, I argue that female selfhood in the early novel was contingent on the heroine's erotic desire, and that amatory fiction encouraged complex responses to love, marriage, and the …
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'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to The Roundheads
… satire, The Rump, which “crosses over” as Aphra Behn‟s adaptation The Roundheads. ii The “cross-over” comedies had a significant impact on the development of English comedy in the Restoration and even into the early eighteenth century. Thomas Jordan‟s The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon, …
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The widow's might: Law and the widow in British fiction, 1689-1792.
… a range of British fictions. Short fictions by Aphra Behn, Jane Barker, and Eliza Haywood, and novels by Frances Sheridan, Sarah Scott and Clara Reeve are analyzed to assess a widow's entitlement to desire, to examine her capacity for narrative agency, and to question her security in a …
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the production of shame, 1680-1753
… shameless female subject, women writers such as Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, and Charlottle Lennox consistently decouple shame from virtue to expose the limitations of the virtuous principles in the world of the conduct manual and moral novel. The introduction considers the historical relationship …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… literary activities of Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn. While Cavendish exploits her position as noblewoman and royalist exile to praise the virtues of the contemplative life, she also insists on publication as a fitting proof of virtue for male and female authors alike. Behn, whose …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… society. Writers like Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Mary Astell engaged in unprecedented textual strategies that subverted their fixed and often challenged roles. Pamphlets affected the Early Modern landscape with liturgical language that would provide a dialogic tension in which …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… and then again into more literary texts by Aphra Behn (herself a radical thinker) and Eliza Haywood, among other writers. These writers and others found that Jews and Judaism offered a compelling model for toleration—especially in light of the increasingly assimilated Anglo-Jewish community, …