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A 12 page research paper that discusses the work of Aphra Behn, the first female British professional author. The writer highlights two of her works, offering an overview of her politics. The works reviewed are Oroonoko and The Rover. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Behns twenty-year career was unique in the Restoration period, that is, "the period after 1660 when Charles II was restored to the English throne" (Todd xv). After the tremendous success
of her plays, Behn gained additional fame due to her "erotic poetry and political propaganda on behalf of Charles II and his brother James II" (Todd xv). She then focused
her writing skill on producing works of long fiction. Until Behns work was published, the nascent English novels on the market tended to "linger in the shadows of the theater"
(Rogal 1). The English reading public was presented with "long, episodic stories," which were characterized by "overly dramatic characterization and improbable plot structures" (Rogal 1). However, Behn took the novel
to the point in its development that her "skilled successors" in the following century could start the work of shaping it into an "independent, recognizable form" (Rogal 1). Behn,
unlike many of her contemporaries among Restoration authors, set a significant number of her plays and much of her prose fiction in exotic locales. The following examination of her work
specifically focuses on this aspect of Behns work, demonstrating the rhetorical use that she made of setting and what this suggests pertaining to how she endeavored to guide her readers
or her audiences perceptions of those locales. This discussion will demonstrate that the father Apha Behns work moves from her London home, the more firmly it works to entrench British
royalist ideology. Background While it is clear from her writing that she was widely read and that she knew several languages, there is no evidence of the extent of
her education or background and very little is known about her life. However, it is known that in her youth, she traveled and visited Surinam (modern day Guyana) and lived
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