Oroonoko Study Guide

Author of ClassicNote and Sources

Casey Diana, author of ClassicNote. Completed on May 25, 2006, copyright held by GradeSaver.

Updated and revised by Adam Kissel July 08, 2006. Copyright held by GradeSaver.

Duffy, Maureen. The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640-89. New York: Jonathan Cape, 1977.

Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Goreau, Angeline. Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn. New York: Dial, 1980.

Visconsi, Elliott. "A Degenerate Race: English Barbarism in Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' and 'The Widow Ranter'." ELH 69.3. 2002-01-01. 2006-05-24. <http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/elh/v069/69.3visconsi.html>.

Oddvar Holmesland. "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Cultural Dialectics and the Novel." ELH 68.1. 2001-01-01. 2006-05-24. <http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/elh/v068/68.1holmesland.html>.

Brown, Laura. "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves," in Oroonoko. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Chibka, Robert L. "Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction in Oroonoko," in Oroonoko. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Ferguson, Margaret. "Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Women's Studies 19 (1991), 159-81.