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Oroonoko

Oroonoko

Tiffany Potter, Editor Broadview Press 2020 The best-known work by Aphra Behn, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery; Oroonoko tells of a noble […]

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood

Tiffany Potter, Editor Modern Language Association 2020 During her long and varied career, Eliza Haywood acted onstage, worked as a publisher and bookseller, and wrote prolifically in many genres, from novels of seduction to essays in periodicals. Her works illuminate the private emotional lives of people in eighteenth-century England, invite readers to consider how women […]