...Brian C. Lockey Aphra Behns' The Rover harks back to an earlier period of intense Anglo-Spanish rivalry in which the iconography surrounding Queen Elizabeth played a central role. But the play also moves past nostalgia for late-sixteenth-century narratives of English national identity...

.... Anglo-Spanish politics and history are considered from a different perspective by Brian Lockey in his reading of Aphra Behn’s The Rover, a play in which English royalists arrive to “liberate” the oppressed female sub- jects of Spanish-occupied Naples. Situating the play in the context of Spain’s...

... of her own, beginning with Lady Winchelsea and Margaret Cav- endish, Duchess of Newcastle, and perorating with Aphra Behn: “All women together,” Woolf says, “ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey...

..., “Unmapping London: Urbanization and the Performance of Personal Space in Aphra Behn's The Lucky Chance ,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 50, no. 2 (2017): 155–71; Miles Parks Grier, “Inkface: The Slave Stigma in England's Early Imperial Imagination,” in Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political...

.... Bartlett, Anne Clark, and Thomas H. Bestul, eds. Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. 256 pp. Paper $16.95. Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave. Edited by Catherine Gallagher with Simon Stern. Bedford Cultural Editions...

... English text with facing-page verse translation.] Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko . Edited by Tiffany Potter. Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2020. 125 pp., 4 illus. Paper $12.95. Descartes, René. “Discourse on Method” and “Meditations on First...

..., 261 pp.; 54 illus. $85.00. Stapleton, M. L. Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn. New- ark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. 247 pp. $49.50. Stevenson, Jane. Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University...

..., 261 pp.; 54 illus. $85.00. Stapleton, M. L. Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn. New- ark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. 247 pp. $49.50. Stevenson, Jane. Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University...

.... London: The Open Uni- versity in association with Bloomsbury Academic, (2012) 2014. xii, 383 pp.; color plates throughout. Paper $29.95. Richards, Cynthia, and Mary Ann O’Donnell, eds. Approaches to Teaching Behn’s “Oroonoko.” Approaches to Teaching Literature, vol. 127. New York: Modern Language...

..., Hampshire: Ashgate Publish- ing, 2006. xiii, 278 pp.; 44 illus. $99.95. Goldziher, Ignaz. Schools of Koranic Commentators. Translated from the German and edited by Wolfgang H. Behn. With an introduction on Gold- ziher and Hadith from Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums by Fuat Sez- gin. Wiesbaden...

... Thomas Wyat, and ten years before Philip III signed the decree of expulsion of the moriscos; in 1677 it is adapted by Aphra Behn for Abdelazer, or, The Moor’s revenge. Lust’s dominion has an intriguingly fantastical plot. The play is set in Spain just as Philip II dies, leaving three children...

... of the medieval world” (313). 17 David Wallace, Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004), 189. 18 David Aers, “A Whisper in the Ear of Early Modernists; or, Reflections on Literary Critics Writing the ‘History of the Subject,’ ” in Culture...

... herself as a writer within developing print conventions, Inglis’s self-assertion corresponds to the growing sense among seventeenth-century women like Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, Bathsua Makin, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, and Katherine Phillips that seizing the pen and writing...

..., Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn (New York: Blackwell, 2004), 188 – 89. Wallace bases his characterization of the Genoese slave trade on the groundbreaking study of Iris Origo, “ ‘The Domestic Enemy’: The Eastern Slaves in Tuscany in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth...

....: Princeton University Press, 1983), 3 – 63, at 38. 12 David Wallace, Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 4. 13 Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Pantheon, 1978); see also Lisa Lowe, Criti- cal Terrains: British and French...

... and Byzantine East,” Speculum 76 (2001): 284 – 314, at 296 – 97. In Creating East and West, Bisaha notes continuities, especially of religious attitudes (see in particular chaps. 1 and 4). 23 David Wallace, Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004...