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Oroonoko

Contents

  • The Text of Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History
  • Textual Notes
  • Historical Backgrounds
  • Joanna Lipking, The New World of Slavery-An Introduction
  • COLONIZER’S AND SETTLER’S: FIRST VIEWS
  • [Montaigne on America]
    • From Of Cannibals
    • From Of Coaches
  • [The Settling of Surinam]
    • Lord Willoughby to Lady Willoughby (1651)
    • [Lord Willoughby’s Prospectus for Settlers to Surinam]
    • [The Company of Royal Adventurers to Lord Willoughby (1663)]
  • OBSERVER’S OF SLAVERY, 1654–1712
  • Antoine Biet, [They Came Here in Order to Become Wealthy]
  • Henry Whistler, [They and Their Seed]
  • Jean Baptiste Du Tertre, [A Servitude for Life]
  • From The Great News from the Barbadoes [Fatal Conspiracy]
  • Hans Sloane, [A Very Perverse Generation]
  • Christopher Codrington, [All Born Heroes]
    • [Mr. Gamble to Governor Codrington]
    • [Governor Codrington to the Council of Trade and Plantations]
  • Jean Barbot, [Three Accounts]
    • [A Wholly Remarkable Meeting]
    • [Sharing the Hardship]
    • [Together Again, tho’ in Bondage]
  • AFTER OROONOKO: NOBLE AFRICANS IN EUROPE
  • Thomas Southerne, From Oroonoko: The Tragedy
  • Richard Steele, The Lover, No. 36
  • [Captain Tom, or Adorno Oroonoko Tomo]
    • [Tomo at Theater and Court (1731)]
    • [Investigation: Commissioners for Trade and Plantations]
    • [Captain William Snelgrave’s Account (1734)]
    • [Archibald Dalzel’s Summation (1793)]
  • John Whaley, On a Young Lady’s Weeping at Oroonoko
  • [Oroonoko in France: The La Place Adaptation]
  • ["The Prince" and the Play]
    • [From The Gentleman’s Magazine, February 1749]
    • [Wylie Sypher on the Prince and Zara]
    • [Horace Walpole to Horace Mann]
  • OPINIONS ON SLAVERY
  • [A Declaration by the Barbados Colonists (1651)]
  • John Locke, From Two Treatises of Government (1690)
    • From The First Treatise
    • From The Second Treatise: Of Civil Government
  • Opinion in Periodicals (1735)
    • The Speech of Moses Bon S·am
    • The Answer of Caribeus to Moses Bon S·am
  • Samuel Johnson, [To Boswell: Dictated Brief to Free a Slave (1777)]
  • Olaudah Equiano, From The Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
  • Criticism
  • RESPONSES TO BEHN AND OROONOKO, 1682–1948
    • Bishop Burnet, [To Anne Wharton, December 9, 1682]
    • Charles Cotton, "To the Admir’d Astrea" (1686)
    • From A Miscellany of New Poems (1688), "A Pindarick to Mrs. Behn on her Poem on the Coronation," Written by a Lady
    • [A Session of Poets (ca. 1688)]
    • The Athenian Mercury, [The "Athenian Society" to a Woman’s LoveQuery (1694)]
    • Thomas Southerne, Dedication to Oroonoko (1696)
    • "Memoirs on the Life of Mrs. Behn," Written by a Gentlewoman of Her Acquaintance (1696)
    • Theophilus Cibber, et al., From Lives of the Poets (1753)
    • Andrew Kippis, From Biographia Britannica (1780)
    • Clara Reeve, From The Progress of Romance (1785)
    • Sir Walter Scott, From Lockhart’s Life of Scott (1837)
    • The Saturday Review, "Literary Garbage" (1872)
    • Algernon Swinburne, ["Impassioned Protest" (1894)]
    • George Saintsbury, ["A Very Inflammable Disposition" (1913)]
    • V. Sackville-West, ["A Born Bohemian" (1927)]
    • Virginia Woolf, ["The Freedom of the Mind" (1929)]
    • George Sherburn, ["An Astonishing Masterpiece" (1948)]
  • CRITICAL ESSAYS, 1984–1996
    • William C. Spengemann, The Earliest American Novel: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
    • Jane Spencer, The Woman Novelist as Heroine
    • Robert L. Chibka, [Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction in Oroonoko]
    • Laura Brown, The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves
    • Charlotte Sussman, The Other Problem with Women: Reproduction and Slave Culture in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
    • Mary Beth Rose, Gender and the Heroics of Endurance in Oroonoko
  • Aphra Behn: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography

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