Versions of Blackness
Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19913348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Neville, Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, Bartholmé De Las Casas, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, José de Acosta, Thomas Gage, Richard Ligon, Sir William Davenant, Antoine Biet, William Byam, Charles De Rochefort, Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, George Warren, Morgan Godwyn, Thomas Tryon, Thomas Thorowgood, Hamon L'Estrange, Thomas Hobbes |
| Editors | Derek Hughes |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Versions of Blackness (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511840890 |
| OpenAlex | W578290555 |
| Open Library | OL7752125M |
| ISBN | 9780511840890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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 three major British seventeenth-century works concerned with race and colonialism: Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), Behn's Abdelazer (1676), and Thomas Southerne's tragedy Oroonoko (1696). It combines these with a rich anthology of European discussions of slavery, racial difference, and colonial conquest from the mid-sixteenth century to the time of Behn's death. Many are taken from important works that have not hitherto been easily available, and the collection offers an unrivaled resource for studying the culture that produced Britain's first major fictions of slavery
Ancient history · Aphra · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Genealogy · Literature · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Tragedy (event) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · 17th century · British Isles · Criticism · English · English literature · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Essays · Literary collections · Literary Criticism · Literary Criticism & Collections · Literature - Classics · Literature, history and criticism · Novels · other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries · Slavery · Slavery & emancipation · Slavery in literature
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2017 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |