Aphra Behn: Selected Bibliography
Works By Mrs. Behn
(N.B.: The selections given here do not count either the substantial but incomplete edition by the Rev. Montague Summers, completed in the first half of this century and now out of print, or the in-progress and not yet readily available edition being compiled by Professor Janet Todd. These titles have been chosen as much for availability as for content.)
Behn, Aphra. The Rover, Oronooko and Other Works. Ed. Janet Todd. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Behn, Aphra. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister. Ed. Janet Todd. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
Behn, Aphra. Oronooko and Other Writings. Ed. Paul Salzman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Behn, Aphra. The Rover and Other Plays. Ed. Jane Spencer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Biographical/Bibliographical Sources
Goreau, Angeline. Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn. New York: Dial Press, 1980.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
O'Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Biography of Primary and Secondary Sources. New York: Garland, 1986.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press,
1997.
Critical Studies of Aphra Behn's Writings
Hutner, Heidi, Ed. Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory and Criticism Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993.
Todd, Janet, Ed. Aphra Behn Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Wiseman, S.J. Aphra Behn. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1996.
Women and Literature (includes material on Behn)
Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1993.
Grundy, Isobel and Susan Wiseman, Eds. Women, Writing, History: 1640-1740. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Pearson, Jacqueline. The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists 1642-1737. Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1988.
Todd, Janet. The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Quinsey, Katherine, Ed. Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996.
General Readings in Criticism/Feminist Criticism
Eagleton, Mary, Ed. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. New York: Routledge, 1985.
Russ, Joanna. How to Suppress Women's Writing. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. New York: Harvest/HBJ, 1957.
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