The Passion of Oroonoko
Passive Obedience, The Royal Slave, and Aphra Behn's Baroque Realism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9340437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Corrinne Harol (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 447-475 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ELH (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8304 • E-ISSN: 1080-6547 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/elh.2012.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W1986132925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
The Passion of Oroonoko situatues Aphra Behn's novella Oroonoko (1689) within the context of debates about passive obedience and political obligation during the Revolution of 1688-9. It argues that Oroonoko leverages residual theories and forms of representing human action (baroque allegory, romance, patriarchal theories of obligation) against emergent ones (realism, novels, individuality) ultimately demonstrating that the natural fact (or natural law) of human passivity inevitability prevails
Allegory · Aphra · Art · Baroque · Context (archaeology · Literature · Natural (archaeology · Novella · Obedience · Obligation · Passion · Passions · Political science · Politics · Realism · Romance · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Desire and Domestic Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
Ritual, Routine, and Regime
Persecution and Toleration
New Feminist Discourses
Aphra Behn
The Mental World of Stuart Women. Three Studies
Learning to Smoke
Power in Smoke
Juggling the categories of race, class and gender
Early Whig Ideology, Ancient Constitutionalism, and the Reverend Samuel Johnson
Conversion and the Imitation of Christ in Anglican and Puritan Writing
Concepts of Political Obedience in Late Tudor England
Surveying "The Map of Slavery" in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Tropicopolitans
The origin of German tragic drama
Frightful Spectacles of a Mangled King
Torture and Truth in Renaissance England
Oroonoko's Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror
Revolution Principles
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
Language and Agency
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |