Utopian Negotiation - Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish

Informationen zum Autor Oddvar Holmesland is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. He is the author of A Critical Introduction to Henry Green's Novels, and Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virginia Woolf's Novels. Klappentext In this work of literary criticism, Holmesland sets out to explore the nature of utopianism in the writings of two prominent women authors of the Restoration Period, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was a dramatist and essayist best known today for The Blazing World; Aphra Behn (1640-1689)was also a dramatist and fiction writer, and her nost famous book, Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is acknowlodged as one of the earliest English novels.

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• Authors: Oddvar Holmesland, HOLMESLAND ODDVAR
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2013
• EAN: 9780815633129
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3312-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies