by Aphra Behn, Joanna Lipking
What I like about the Little Black Classics is that you are reading so many different authors, including ones that you had never heard of before encountering them in this series. Aphra Behn was one of those, and to be honest, reading about her was the most interesting part of this classic for me. Ap...
L'ho studiato l'anno scorso per l'esame di letteratura inglese.. Il professore sembrava tenerci molto, visto che a tutti ha chiesto qualcosa di questo libro.. :DGiusto per capire quanto lo abbiamo sviscerato a lezione (dalle 12 alle tre. Nemmeno vi sto a dire l'abbiocco che partiva ogni volta.. XD)!...
I quite liked this book and would have probably given it a 5 had it not been for the racist depictions in the book. Behn depicts the protagonist, Oroonoko, as being extremely regal and handsome because of his European nose and straight hair, among other things. I guess since the book was written in ...
This is the types of books, which I love the most - the one with quick-story, packed-action! There are a few books, which anchor you from the first line itself. Oroonoko comes into that category - the novel starts at description of the usefulness of 18th century slaves, defining the process of acqui...
Racism, pro-slavery and the first female author and first author to get paid for her works.Read it for English class, did not like it one bit.
Well, I had to read this one for my Restorations class, and I'm gonna admit, I'm not a big fan. I didn't hate it, but I definitely wasn't pulled into the story. I just didn't enjoy the way that Behn told it. I'm not a fan of books that are overly descriptive, and I like to get to know the narrator....
Aphra Behn was the first English woman to support herself by writing, by dint of plays and tales of sentiment and sensation like Oroonoko (1688). It is a heroic novel, featuring a most manly, noble, handsome, warlike, proud, incorruptible, and altogether perfectly perfect hero; and a purely pure, be...
The moral: Slavery is bad when it happens to someone we like, especially if that someone is royalty. In the end, it's really all about Aphra Behn being a royalist and about how very terrible it was for Charles I to be executed like a normal person! But it manages to be about that in a way that's als...
Ugh-what a terrible, heart-wrenching ending!
I read this fascinated by the idea of Aphra Behn making her living as a writer in the 17th century, and being neglected by the canon all these years. Thanks, feminism, for bringing neglected writers back out of obscurity.That said, I can't really remember a thing about it. I don't think 17th is real...
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