Behn aphra todd janet editor (6 risultati)

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hardback, large 8vo, xx,468pp, 2 frontispieces, facsimile title page, clean and tight, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt titles, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 1851960147.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The Works of Aphra Behn. Edited by Janet Todd. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1992-1996. First Edition. Complete set in 7 volumes. Uniform green cloth bindings measure 9.5 x 6". Poetry; Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister; The Fair Jilt and Other Short Stories; Seneca Unmasqued and Other Prose Translations; The Plays 1671-1677; The Plays 1677-1682; The Plays 1682-1696. In good condition. Boards normally scuffed around edges and corners. Head and tail of spine bumped; gilt lettering and ruling on spine lightly rubbed, but overall attractive and all legible. Light spots of water or tea dampness staining on top edge of Vol. 4's text-block (not seen in text-block). Spot of finger-soiling on top edge of Vol. 5's text-block. Ownership inscription, in ink, found on front end-pages of Vols. 1-5. Very light toning in margins. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge, writer Janet Todd uses Aphra Behn's (1640-1689) works to open a window onto her life. Documentary evidence for Behn is scant but Todd's research is painstaking. Born Aphra Johnson in Kent in 1640, very little is known of her early years but Todd teases out family connections to Thomas Colepeper and through him to Lord Strangford and Lady Sunderland, which may account for Behn's literary education. Certainly she was fluent in French and well versed in the classics. Behn used her plays as a channel to attack those whose politics she disagreed with, often lampooning public figures, but they also display her interest in women's lives and the obstacles they face, in love, marriage and the games that men and women play. In the 1680s Behn began to publish prose pieces and Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister is one of the earliest novels in English. Behn wrote a great deal of erotic fiction and her open and unembarrassed attitude to sex and the female body made her unpopular in the prudish Victorian era. Professor Todd has written four biographies, one concerning Aphra Behn, a celebrated author in the reign of Charles II, and three linked ones on the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and her aristocratic Irish pupil. Complete set in 7 volumes. Clean. RARES1996DPRB - 08/26 - HK3902.…