{"product_id":"approaches-to-teaching-behns-oroonoko-cynthia-richards-9781603291279","title":"Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, \u003ci\u003eOroonoko; or, The Royal Slave\u003c\/i\u003e (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 of this volume, \"Materials,\" provides not only resources for the teacher of \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e but also a brief chronology of Behn's life and work. In part 2, \"Approaches,\" essays offer a diversity of perspectives appropriate to a text that challenges student assumptions and contains not one story but many: \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e as a romance, as a travel account, as a heroic tragedy, as a window to seventeenth-century representations of race, as a reflection of Tory-Whig conflict in the time of Charles II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Richards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 160329127X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603291279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Association of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Cynthia Richards","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48445411361023,"sku":"9781603291279","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21811646-228c-4d42-aebe-da293754d039.jpg?v=1777218430","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/approaches-to-teaching-behns-oroonoko-cynthia-richards-9781603291279","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}