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Overview
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave has earned acclaim from both literary critics and historians. When it was originally published in 1688, less than a year before author Aphra Behn died, Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave did not receive immediate attention. However, Behn’s work did gain popularity after a stage version of the novel was released in 1695. While the accuracy of the novel’s plot has been questioned and debated by historians, Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave has earned cultural and historical significance by being claimed as one of the first novels written in English. Along with its prolific and innovative writer, the novel has earned significance that is still admirable today.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781513268361 |
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Publisher: | Mint Editions |
Publication date: | 12/01/2020 |
Series: | Mint Editions (Women Writers) |
Pages: | 64 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.16(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction- Aphra Behn
- Oroonoko
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave: A True History
In Context- from Aphra Behn, the Dedication of Oroonoko to Lord Maitland (1688)
- The Invitation to Surinam: Lord Willoughby’s Prospectus
- from Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, Certain Overtures made by the Lord Willoughby of Parham unto all such as shall incline to plant in the English colony of Surinam on the continent of Guiana (c. 1655)
- On Surinam in the Seventeenth Century
- from George Warren, An Impartial Description of Surinam upon the Continent of Guiana in America (1667)
- The Restoration Monarchy and the Slave Trade
- from The Several Declarations of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa (1667)
- Infographic: England’s Slave Trade
- Europeans on Slavery, Gold Coast to Guiana
- from William Snelgrave, A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave Trade (1734)
- from Charles de Rochefort, The History of the Carriby-Islands (1658, English translation 1666)
- from Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)
- from Thomas Tryon, Friendly Advice to Gentleman Planters (1684)
- from Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, General History of the Antilles Inhabited by the French (1667–71)
- Black Voices on Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)
- from Richard Price, First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People (1983, second edition 2002)
- Eighteenth-Century Commentaries on Aphra Behn and Oroonoko
- from Thomas Southerne, dedication to his stage adaptation of Oroonoko (1696)
- from anonymous, The History of the Life and Memoirs of Mrs. Behn, written by one of the Fair Sex (1698)
- from The General Dictionary, Historical and Critical (1735)