Essays and Articles about Aphra Behn.

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Aphra Behn

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Trying to frame the unframable: Oroonoko as discourse in Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' - Daniel Pigg
Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and the Female Pindaric - Stella P. Revard
Women (Authors) on Top - Julie Crawford
Conning the "Overseers": Women's Illicit Work
            in Behn's "The Adventure of the Black Lady" - Margaret Ferguson
(Re)Textualizing the Female Body: Maternity and
            the Negotiations of Power in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko - Sarah Klein
"'Tis pity that when laws are faulty they should not be mended or abolisht":
            Authority, legitimations, and honor in Aphra Behn's The Widdow Ranter - Aspasia Velissariou
Caesar's Toils: Allusion and Rebellion in Oroonoko - David E. Hoegberg [.pdf]
Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by 17th-Century English Women Dramatists - Marguérite Corporaal EMLS
Aphra Behn and the Beginnings of a Female Narrative Voice - Ruth Nestvold
Aphra Behn, Racism and the Beginnings of Novelistic Discourse - Ruth Nestvold
Aphra Behn and the impossibility of female authorship (German) - Ruth Nestvold

A Critical Edition of "To the Fair Clarinda" - T. Lynn Dickman

The Sexual Empowerment of Women in Two of Aphra Behn's Poems - Lisa Devine

Aphra Behn and Sexual Identity: ambiguity and Gender Swapping - David Crook

Patriarchy in Aphra Behn's The Rover - Andrea Edl