Morgan Godwyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 9170505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morgan Godwyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morgan |
| FAMILY NAME | Godwyn |
| SIGNATURE | GODWYN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Negro's and Indians Advocate
Godwyn was a member of a distinguished British ecclesiastical family. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1665, served briefly as a vicar in Wendover, Bucks, and then traveled to Virginia and subsequently Barbados. His work is particularly interesting in that it records the intellectual bases on which slave owners were attempting to deny human status to black Africans. Prominent among these beliefs is the use of the pre-Adamite heresy (th…
Versions of Blackness
Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slavery and complex portrayal of ways in which differing races and cultures - European, Black African, and Native American - observe and misinterpret each other. This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary, along with complete texts of thre…
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The Negro's and Indians Advocate
Godwyn was a member of a distinguished British ecclesiastical family. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1665, served briefly as a vicar in Wendover, Bucks, and then traveled to Virginia and subsequently Barbados. His work is particularly interesting in that it records the intellectual bases on which slave owners were attempting to deny human status to black Africans. Prominent among these beliefs is the use of the pre-Adamite heresy (th…
Versions of Blackness
Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slavery and complex portrayal of ways in which differing races and cultures - European, Black African, and Native American - observe and misinterpret each other. This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary, along with complete texts of thre…
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