Oroonoko Explored

Beach, R. Adam. “Behn’s Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic                        World.” Johns Hopkins University Press, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, vol. 39,                          2010, 215-233.

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Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko: An Authoritative Text, Historical Backgrounds, Criticism. Edited by Joanna

            Lipking. W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. This source includes the following:

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            Atkins, Great newes from the Barbadoes. London, 1676.    

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            Barbot, Jean. Description of the Coasts of Africa. 1688.

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            Barbot, Jean. A Description of the Coasts of North and South-Guinea. London, 1732.

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            Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave. A True History. London, 1688.

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            Biet, Antoine. Voyage de la France Equinoxiale en L’Isle de Cayenne. Paris, 1664.

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            Montaigne, Michael. Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne. London, 1686.

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            Sloane, Hans. Voyage to the Islands… with the Natural History of Jamaica. 1707.

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Richards, Cynthia. “Interrogating Oroonoko: Torture in a New World and a Fiction of Power.”                        University of Toronto Press. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 25, no. 4, summer 2013, 647-                    676.

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Rogers, M. Katherine. "Fact and Fiction in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.” Johns Hopkins University                      Press, Studies in the Novel, vol. 20, no. 1, spring 1988, 1-15.

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Yang, Chi-ming. “Asia Out of Place: The Aesthetics of Incorruptibility in Behn’s Oroonoko.” Johns                  Hopkins University Press, Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, winter 2009, 235-253.