ENGLISH 759

Aphra Behn and the Canon

Please note: this is archived course information from 2020 for ENGLISH 759.

Description

A study of selected plays, prose fictions and poems by Behn in relation to both the emerging canon of early modern English literature and to contemporary debates about canonicity within feminism and cultural studies.

Availability 2020

Not taught in 2020

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Sophie Tomlinson

Reading/Texts

Brian Corman, ed., The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (Broadview Press)

Aphra Behn, Oroonoko and Other Writings, ed. Paul Salzman (OUP)

Assessment

Points

ENGLISH 759: 15 points

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENGLISH 737