Oroonoko: an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, criticism

The text of Oroonoko, or The royal slave: a true history

Historical backgrounds

Criticism

Aphra Behn: a chronology.

Contents of "Criticism" section: To Anne Wharton / Bishop Burnet (December 19, 1682)

To the admir'd Astrea / Charles Cotton (1686)

A pindarick to Mrs. Behn on her poem on the coronation / written by a lady

The "Athenian Society" to a woman's love query (1694)

Dedication to Oroonoko / Thomas Southerne (1696)

Memoirs on the life of Mrs. Behn / written by a gentlewoman of her acquaintance (1696)

[Excerpt] from The lives of the poets / Theophilus Cibber, et al. (1753)

[Excerpt] from Biographia Britannica / Andrew Kippis (1780)

[Excerpt] from The progress of romance / Clara Reeve (1785)

[Excerpt] from Lockhart's Life of Scott / Walter Scott (1837)

Literary garbage (1872)

Impassioned protest / Algernon Swinburne (1894)

A very inflammable disposition / George Saintsbury (1913)

A born Bohemian / V. Sackville-West (1927)

The freedom of the mind / Virginia Woolf (1929)

An astonishing masterpiece / George Sherburn (1948)

The earliest American novel: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / William C. Sprengemann

The woman novelist as heroine / Jane Spencer

Truth, falsehood, and fiction in Oroonoko / Robert L. Chibka

The romance of empire: Oroonoko and the trade in slaves / Laura Brown

The other problem with women: reproduction and slave culture in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Charlotte Sussman

Gender and the heroics of endurance in Oroonoko / Mary Beth Rose.