Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave

Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave
Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780819165299

This book is an edited text of Oroonoko, a seventeenth-century novel of love, passion, and the struggle for human dignity written by England's most eminent woman playwright, poet, and novelist of the day. The novel tells the story of a great African warrior who falls victim to treachery. As a result, he finds himself a slave in what is now Dutch Guinea. As an emancipation novel, the work gives insight into slave practices in both Africa and the New World Colonies.

Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel

Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel
Author: R. Carnell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2006-08-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1403983542

This book considers why narrative realism in literature is seen as a 'full account' of 'real life' and the individual self. Unconventionally, Carnell shows that the formal conventions of narrative realism emerged in the seventeenth century in response to an explosion of partisan writings that put into play competing versions of political selfhood.