Aphra Behn's Afterlife [Hardcover]

Jane Spencer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 25, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0198184948 | ISBN-13: 978-0198184942

Aphra Behn, now becoming recognized as a major Restoration figure, is especially significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer. This book analyses her reception as a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, demonstrating her far-reaching influence on eighteenth-century literature and on the formation of the English literary canon.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Jane Spencer's erudite and entertaining book offers an important argument about gender and influence and brings an exceptional grasp of historical nuance to Behn's works themselves and the various ways in which they were coopted by later writers in the service of a range of different agendas ... Jane Spencer's book will be a model for all later studies of gender and literary influence. The Seventeenth Century Spencer's book is original in its argument, wide-ranging in its frame of reference, and written in elegant and lucid prose. It makes an important contribution to Aphra Behn studies and the history of women's writing more generally. It will have a lasting impact, too, on the study of cultural transmission and canon formation in the eighteenth century and beyond. Review of English Studies

About the Author

Jane Spencer is at the University of Exeter.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198184948
• ISBN-13: 978-0198184942
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,777,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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