Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn

by M.L. Stapleton

Admired and Understood analyzes Behn's only pure verse collection, Poems upon Several Occasions (1684), and situates her in her literary milieu. Her book demonstrates her desire for acceptance in her literary culture, to be 'admired and understood, ' the antithesis of what many surmise from reading her other works--that she saw herself primarily as a guerilla critic of her culture's views on race, class, and gender. Although the collapse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611492416
• ISBN13: 9781611492415
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 251 Pages