Showing Results for
- Literature Criticism (693)
Search Results
- 693
Literature Criticism
- 693
-
From: Restoration[(essay date fall 2000) In the following essay, Stapleton refutes a current critical notion that Behn endorsed libertinism, insisting that Behn's elegy on the Earl of Rochester served as "literary camouflage" for her...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From:Feminist WritersAphra Behn, the first female professional writer in England, wrote plays, fiction, and poems. To each genre she brought a new female-centered perspective and used new rhetorical strategies to express that point of view....Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Portraits and Backgrounds[In the following excerpt, Blashfield discusses the characterization in Behn's plays and novels.] Though [Mrs. Behn's] language is rich and sonorous, vigorous and racy, she cannot be counted among the group of comedy...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900[(essay date summer 1993) In the following essay, Young discusses Behn's use of the pastoral form to destabilize and challenge conventional gender roles.] In Scaliger's Ars Poetica, written in 1561, the author...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Aphra Behn began her literary career as a dramatist. Her early plays are undistinguished imitations of the romantic tragicomedy deriving from Beaumont and Fletcher; Abdelazar, for instance, is a successful but...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureBehn, Aphra (b. July 1640, probably Harbledown, Kent, Eng.--d. April 16, 1689, London) English dramatist, novelist, and poet, the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing. Her novel Oroonoko (1688;...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: The Sketch Book of Character; or, Curious and Authentic Narratives and Anecdotes[(essay date 1835) In the following essay, the anonymous author discusses Behn’s thoughts regarding Oroonoko (1688) and the person on which it is based. The author also deals with early charges of the licentiousness of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Transactions of the Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment: Bristol 21-27 July 1991[(lecture date 1991) In the following essay, originally read at a 1991 conference, Todd contends that Behn accepted the notion that she could never garner fame and respect as a poet without the assistance and mediation...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 48) Peer-ReviewedIN HER "TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE" to Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la plurality des mondes, a text Behn "made English" and entitled A discovery of new worlds, she gives us a sense of early modern translation as a transnational...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: ELH[(essay date summer 1990) In the following essay, Mermin compares the poetry of Philips, Behn, and Finch, concluding that though Behn's work was often more shocking than that of the other two, it was more firmly grounded...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Genre[(essay date spring/summer 1995) In the following essay, Young contends that Behn challenged the conventions of the elegy genre as well as the basic standards of poetic fame.] Aphra Behn, the first female professional...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode: 1450-1700[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Revard discusses Behn’s use of the Pindaric ode as a tool for political propaganda.] From the time that Cowley set the tone for Charles II’s reign with the pindaric of royal...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: English Language Notes[(essay date June 2003) In the following essay, Russell examines Behn's place within contemporary literature through a study of her work as well as references to her in the work of others that appeared in early modern...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives of or Residents in the County of Kent; with Specimens of Their Compositions, and Some Account of Their Lives and Writings[(essay date 1821) In the following essay, Freeman presents a moralistic biography of Behn, whose “life was devoted to pleasure and the muse” and “monstrous depravity” and who lived on familiar terms with the greatest...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research[(essay date summer 1999) In the following essay, Copeland discusses the late-twentieth-century reception of and renewal of interest in The Rover, describing how critics have sought to reconstruct the work for modern...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Interactions[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Trofimova explores the range of male desire in Behn’s fiction, developing three classifications for the male characters in Love-Letters between a Noble-Man and His Sister: the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn and Suzanne Centlivre[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Kreis-Schinck examines strategies in Behn’s plays for her female characters to resolve their pre- or extramarital sexual predicaments, situations that lead neither to full...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Representing Women in Renaissance England[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Revard discusses Behn's protest against the exclusion of women from education in Latin and Greek--a protest that she formulated within a Pindaric ode.] In 1683, Triumphs of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From:The English Review (Vol. 17, Issue 3)The 1929 publication of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own set into motion ideas that would forever alter the reception of texts written by, for and about women. The work went on to become one of the most influential...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
-
From: Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Lavoie examines the 1755 poetic miscellany Poems by Eminent Ladies, which reintroduced Behn’s verse to the eighteenth century. Lavoie finds the editing of Behn’s poems...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center