The “Noble Savage”: Aristocracy, Slavery, Restoration Culture and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

Evoking as historical and intertextual context the Restoration of English monarchy and the attendant political and cultural projects, chiefl y royalist, legitimizing and advocating the stability of power in the period, the paper discusses Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by looking...

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Published in:	Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Main Author:	Przemysław Uściński
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institute of English Studies 2017-10-01
Subjects:	Aphra Behn Oroonoko deconstruction slavery noble savage iterability third space
Online Access:	http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/26-1-articles/Anglica_26-1_PUscinski_43-54.pdf