...Angelina Del Balzo This article offers a genre‐based argument for the white Imoinda in Thomas Southerne's stage adaptation of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko . Southerne's adaptation was one of the earliest depictions of plantation slavery on the English stage, and it drew on tropes from the Oriental she...

... that touch upon the same topics and yet, so frequently, equivocate about personal or national ethics. For example, Aphra Behn’s novella Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (1688), fre- quently cited by modern scholars as abolitionist for its sympathetic treatment of Prince Oroonoko, nonetheless virtually...

... autonomous.13 Perhaps the most obvious example of a female fugitive in Behn’s oeuvre is “Heroick Imoinda” from Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (1688). After failing to “fly . . . to some unknown World” to escape from the “miserable Captivity” of life in a royal harem in the first section of the novel...

..., editors, and actors throughout the second half of the eighteenth century chose to modify the ever-popular Othello and Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko in order to eliminate scurrilous racial epithets, to lighten a black-faced complexion, or to ennoble the African hero further, the texts considered here...

...; they must code for special—sovereign—knowledge or ability. They must also be menacing, embodying violence and localizing it as the spe- cial preserve of the sovereign” (68). One of the most exciting parts of Loar’s chapter on Behn is his examination of the burning-glass episode in Oroonoko, which he...

... Balzo's essay, “Making Whiteness Visible: Slavery and Oriental She-Tragedy in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko ,” turns to the theater to reveal one of the Enlightenment's most injurious legacies: the development of modern race categories. Reading Thomas Southerne's 1696 stage adaptation of Aphra Behn's...

... the very beginning — Cervantes’s Don Quixote and Behn’s Oroonoko are two canonical examples — though Park is less interested in writ- ing traditional literary history than in setting novels against other artifacts of an eighteenthcentury culture of novelty. Nonetheless, the novel occupies...

..., adding emotions and motivations that were missing in the originals” (133). Chapter nine studies Thomas Southerne’s adaptation of Behn’s Oroonoko (1695) and Edward Young’s The Revenge (1721), both of which were popular throughout the eighteenth century. The respective African characters...

... is interested here in spy fiction and reverse ethnography. Chapter 1, “Fiction/ Translation/Transculturation,” reads Marana’s Turkish Spy (1684 – ​86) as “con- textually determinative” (40) for Behn’s Oroonoko (1688) and Defoe’s Roxana (1724), urging us to treat English fiction of this period as “a multi...

... of Gay’s writing as a whole. Although images of slavery, for example, haunt his work, he is careful to keep from con- fronting the subject directly. Both The Captives and Polly revisit Southerne’s Oroonoko, its theme of slave rebellion and its hero of a “prince, born only...

.... Oroonoko: Adaptations and Off shoots (Burlington: Ashgate, 2006). Pp. 369. 9 ills. $124.95. ISBN 0-7546-0659-7 Jager, Colin. The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. 274. $59.95. £39. ISBN 0-8122-3979-2 Jenks, Timothy...

... The Widow Ranter (1689) is unmentioned, although she praises the inventive late farce The Emperor of the Moon (1687). She suggests that Behn earned little from her efforts to write Stuart panegyrics, because her irregular odes were poor, and she describes Oroonoko—now one of the most anthologized...

... vague resemblances, like type characters, between the plays and the later fiction, and in discussing the one master of both genres, seems utterly without any curiosity why Aphra Behn would have chosen to write Oroonoko as a novel rather than a drama. We cannot guess what Behn would have done, of course...

...). Dampier presents Jeoly as a prince, in that “trope of sentimental identification by which the native ‘other’ is naturalized as a European aristocrat,” as Laura Brown says of Jeoly’s fic- tional contemporary, Oroonoko.11 A contemporary engraving of his spec...

..., desire, and debate. And to say “discourse about African sexual behaviours was ram- pant” (69) is a strange characterization. Rampant where? In the literary sphere? 70 Eighteenth-Century Life In the common culture? Can discourse be rampant? The stories of Othello and Oroonoko are not everyday...

..., Susan B., ed. “Oroonoko”: Adaptations and Offshoots (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). Pp. xxii + 369. $124.95. ISBN 0-7546-0659-7 Jajdelska, Elspeth. Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 2007). Pp. x + 222. $60. ISBN 978-0-8020-9364-6 Jung, Sandro. David...

.... $42.50. ISBN 0-8387-5443-0 Ingrassia, Catherine, and Jeff rey S. Ravel, eds. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 33 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2004). Pp. 453. $45. ISBN 0-8018-7873-x Iwanisziw, Susan B., ed. Troping Oroonoko from Behn to Bandele (Burlington: Ashgate, 2004...

... had achieved that status. 9. John Hawkesworth, The Journals of Captain Cook, ed. Philip Edwards (London: Penguin, 1999), 52; Hawkesworth, New Voyage, 1:77. 10. Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688) (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973), 3. 11. John...

... of anti-Spanish privateering. Because of the influence of Oroonoko (688), Behn scholars have had much more to say about her imperialism than her nationalism, leaving unexamined The Rover’s patriotic sensibilities and Behn’s attempt to create goodwill toward the Stuart court through the auspices...

...). Pp. 254. $42.50. ISBN 0-8387-5443-0 Ingrassia, Catherine, and Jeffrey S. Ravel, eds. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 33 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2004). Pp. 453. $45. ISBN 0-808-7873-x Iwanisziw, Susan B., ed. Troping Oroonoko from Behn to Bandele (Burlington: Ashgate...