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Versions of Blackness
Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century

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  • Date Published: October 2007
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521689564

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  • 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.

    • Contains the most fully and expertly annotated edition of Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko', one of the most widely studied seventeenth-century works
    • Wide-ranging anthology of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts concerned with race, colonialism, and slavery
    • Will be of interest to any university with a degree course in English literature
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    • Date Published: October 2007
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521689564
    • length: 416 pages
    • dimensions: 234 x 156 x 24 mm
    • weight: 0.64kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    A note on the texts
    Part I. The Major Texts: Henry Neville 'The Isle of Pines'
    Aphra Behn 'Abdelazer'
    Aphra Behn 'Oroonoko'
    Thomas Southerne 'Oroonoko'
    Part II. Contexts: Europe, America, and Africa
    From Bartolome de las Casas 'A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies'
    From Juan Gines de Sepulveda 'Democrates Secundus'
    From Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 'Of the Cannibals' and 'Of Coaches'
    From Jose de Acosta 'On Spreading the Gospel among the Savages'
    From Thomas Gage 'The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land'
    From Richard Ligon 'A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados'
    From Sir William Davenant 'The History of Sir Francis Drake'
    From Antoine Biet 'Voyage de la France Equinoxiale en l'Isle de Cayenne'
    From William Byam 'An Exact Relation of the Most Execrable Attempts of John Allin'
    From Charles de Rochefort 'The History of the Caribby-Islands'
    From Jean-Baptiste du Tetre 'Histoire Generale des Antilles Habitees par les Francois'
    From George Warren 'An Impartial Description of Surinam'
    From 'Great Newes from the Barbadoes'
    From Morgan Godwyn 'The Negros and Indians Advocate'
    From Thomas Tryon 'Friendly Advice to the Gentleman Planters of the East and West Indies'
    Discussions of Colonialism
    From Thomas Thorowgood 'Iewes in America'
    From Hamon L'Estrange 'Americans no Iewes'
    From Thomas Hobbes 'Leviathan'
    From Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon 'A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr Hobbes's book, entitled 'Leviathan'
    From John Locke 'Two Treatises of Government'
    The Germantown declaration.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Catholic Thought and the Problem of Slavery
    • LIterature of Rebellion
    • Music and Literature, Black Studies, African American Poetry
    • Race and the English Novel
  • Editor

    Derek Hughes, University of Aberdeen
    Derek Hughes is a Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen, and formerly held a chair at the University of Warwick. He has published widely on Restoration literature in journals such as ELH, Essays in Criticism, and Philological Quarterly, and is internationally recognized as a leading authority on Restoration Drama. His books include English Drama, 1660–1700 (1996) and The Theatre of Aphra Behn (2001). With Janet Todd, he edited the Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (2004). He is currently completing a monograph on the representation of human sacrifice in literature, which reflects extensive research into early European contacts with America.

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