Aphra Behn: Bibliography

• Aercke, Kristiaan P. "Theatrical Background in English Novels of the Seventeenth Century." Journal of Narrative Technique 18(1988)2: 120-136.
• Armistead, J.M. and Werner Bies. Four Restoration Playwrights: A Reference Guide to Thomas Shadwell, Aphra Behn, Nathaniel Lee, and Thomas Otway. Boston: Hall, 1984.
• Ballaster, Roz. "Seizing the Means of Seduction: Fiction and Feminine Identity in Aphra Behn and Delariviere Manley." In Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, eds. Women, Writing, History: 1640-1799. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992. 93-108.
• Barrett, Alberta Gregg. Plot, Characterization, and Theme in the Plays of Aphra Behn. DAI 26(1966): 7294.
• Batten, Charles L., Jr. "The Source of Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 13(1974)1: 12-18.
• Behn, Aphra. Aphra Behn/Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works. Janet Todd, ed. London: Penguin, 1992.
• -----. The Rover. Frederick M. Link, ed. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1967.
• -----.The Works of Aphra Behn, III: The Fair Jilt and Other Stories. Janet Todd, ed. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 1995.
• Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. "Behn's 'Disappointment' and Nashe's 'Choise of Valentines': Pornographic Poetry and the Influence of Anxiety." Essays in Literature 16(1989)2: 172-187.
• Brinks, Ellen. "Meeting Over the Map: Madeleine de Scudery's Carte du Pays and Aphra Behn's Voyage to the Isle of Love." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 17(1993)1: 30-38.
• Connor, Margareete Regina. Heirs to 'Astrea's Vacant Throne': Behn's Influence on Trotter, Pix, Manley and Centlivre. DAI 56(1995)5: 1788A. DAI #DA95530861.
• Copeland, Nancy. "'Once a Whore and Ever'? Whore and Virgin in The Rover and Its Antecedents." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 16(1992):1: 20-27.
• -----. "Re-Producing The Rover: John Barton's Rover at the Swan." Essays in Theatre 9(1990)1: 45-59.
• Craft, Catherine A. "Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn's Fair Vow-Breaker, Eliza Haywood's Fantomina, and Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote. The Modern Language Review. 86(1991):4: 821-38.
• Day, Robert Adams. "Aphra Behn and the Works of the Intellect." In Schofield, Mary Anne and Cecilia Macheski, eds. Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670-1815. Athens: Ohio UP, 1986. 372-382.
• DeRitter, Jones. "The Gypsy, The Rover and The Wanderer: Aphra Behn's Revision of Thomas Killigrew." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 10(1986)2: 82-92.
• Dhuicq, Bernard. "Aphra Behn's Reflections on Morality: Or, Seneca Unmasqued." Notes and Queries 41(1994)2: 175-76.
• Dyfhuizen, Bernard. "'That Which I Dare Not Name': Aphra Behn's 'The Willing Mistress.' ELH (English Literary History) 58(1991)1: 63-82.
• Feldwick, Arlen. "Wits, Whigs, and Women: Domestic Politics as Anti-Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn's Town Comedies." In Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan, eds. Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women/ Albany, NY: State U of NY P, 1995. 223-240.
• Franceschina, John. "Shadow and Substance in Aphra Behn's The Rover: The Semiotics of Restoration Performance." Restoration: Studies in English Literaty Culture, 1660-1700. 19(1995)1: 29-42.
• Gallagher, Catherine. "Who Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra Behn." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15(1988)1-3, 23-42.
• Goreau, Angeline. Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn. New York: Dial, 1980.
  Hargreaves, H.A. "The Birth of Mrs. Behn." The Humanities Association Review/La Revue de l'Association des Humanities 16(1965)1: 19-20.
• Hendricks, Margo. "Civility, Barbarism, and Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter. In Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, eds. Women, 'Race,' and Writing in the Early Modern Period. London: Routledge, 1994. 225-239.
• Kavenik, Frances M. "Aphra Behn: The Playwright as 'Breeches Part.'" In Schofield, Mary Anne and Cecilia Macheski, eds. Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660 1820. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1991. 177-92.
• Kinney, Suz-Anne. "Confinement Sharpens the Invention: Aphra Behn's The Rover and Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body. In Gail Finney, ed. Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1994. 81-98.
• Kubek, Elizabeth Bennett. "'Night Mares of the Commonwealth': Royalist Passion and Female Ambition in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 17(1993)2: 39-52.
• Langdell, Chri Davis. "Aphra Behn and Sexual Politics: A Dramatist's Discourse with Her Audience." In James Redmond, ed. Drama, Sex and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. 109-128.
• Markley, Robert. "'Be Impudent, Be Saucy, Forward, Bold, Touzing, and Leud': The Politics of Masculine Sexuality and Feminine Desire in Behn's Tory Comedies." In J. Douglas Canfield and Deborah C. Payne, eds. Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995.
• Medoff, Jeslyn. "The Daughters of Behn and the Problems of Reputation." In Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, eds. Women, Writing, History: 1640-1799. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992. 33-54.
• Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1987.
• Mermin, Dorothy. "Women Becoming Poets: Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch." ELH (English Literary History) 57(1990)2: 335-55.
• Munns, Jessica. "Barton and Behn's The Rover; Or, The Text Transpos'd." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 3(1988)2: 11-22.
• Musser, Joseph F., Jr. "'Imposing Nought but Constancy in Love': Aphra Behn Snares The Rover." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 3(1979)1: 17-25.
• Nash, Julie. "'The Sight on't Would Beget a Warm Desire': Visual Pleasure in Aphra Behn's The Rover." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 18(1994)2: 77-87.
• O'Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary sources. New York: Garland, 1986.
• Overton, Bill. "Countering Crusoe: Two Colonial Narratives." Critical Survey. 4(1992)3: 302-10.
• Owen, Susan J. "'Suspect My Loyalty When I Lose My Virtue': Sexual Politics and Party in Aphra Behn's Plays of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-83." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 18(1994)1: 37-47.
• Payne, Deborah C. "'And Poets Shall by Patron-Princes Live': Aphra Behn and Patronage." In Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, eds. Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1991. 105-19.
• Pearson, Jacqueline. "Gender and Narrative in the Fiction of Aphra Behn, I and II." Review of English Studies 42(1991)165: 40-56, 42(1991)166:179-90.
• Price-Hendricks, Margo Jennett. The Roaring Girls: A Study of 17th Century Feminism and the Development of Feminist Drama. DAI 48(1988)10: 2492A-2493A.
• Prescott, Anne. The Dramatic Works of Aphra Behn: A Comparison/Contrast of Her Views of Women and Their Interaction with Restoration Society with That of Her Male Contemporaries. DAI 53(1992)2: 507A. DAI #DA9218260.
• Roh, Seung-hee. "Seduction of Masquerading Signs: Apra Behn's Authorship and The Rover." The Journal of English Language and Literature 41(1995)4: 1099-1122.
• Root, Robert L. "Aphra Behn, Arranged Marriage, and Restoration Comedy." Women and Literature 5(1977)1: 3-14.
• Saul, Suzanne Mosher. The Comic Art of Aphra Behn. DAI 38(1978): 6750A.
• Schafer, Elizabeth. "Appropriating Aphra." Australasian Drama Sutdies 19(1991): 39-49.
• Schulman, Jeff. "An Ovidian Echo in Behn's The Rover." Notes and Queries 31(1984)3: 345-46.
• Snook, Lorrie Jean. The Performance of Sexual and Economic Politics in the Plays of Aphra Behn. DAI 53(1993)9: 3226A. DAI #DA9303302.
• Spencer, Jane. "Aphra Behn on the Eighteenth-Century Stage." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 1992: 831-834.
• -----. "Not Being a Historian: Women Telling Tales in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England." In Roy Eriksen, ed. Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative: The European Tradition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. 319-340.
• Starr, G.A. "Aphra Behn and the Genealogy of the Man of Feeling." Modern Philology. 87(1990)4: 362-72.
• Stiebel, Arlene. "Not Since Sappho: The Erotic in Poems of Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn." In Claude J.Summers, ed. Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context. New York: Harrington Park, 1992. 153-171.
• -----. "Subersive Sexuality: Masking the Erotic in Poems by Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn." In Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds. Renaissance Discourses of Desire. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1993. 223-236.
• Taetzsch, Lynne. "Romantic Love Replaces Kinship Exchannge in Aphra Behn's Restoration Drama." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 17(1993)1: 30-38.
• Ward, Wilber Henry. "Mrs. Behn's The Widow Ranter: Historical Sources." South Atlantic Bulletin: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Research and Teaching in the Modern Languages and Literatures 41(1976)4: 94-98.
• Zimbardo, Rose. "Aphra Behn: A Dramatist in Search of the Novel." In Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, eds. Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1991. 371-82.

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