num_pages: 320
description: Aphra Behn, now becoming recognized as a major Restoration figure, is especially significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer. This book analyses her reception as a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, demonstrating her far-reaching influence on eighteenth-century literature and on the formation of the English literary canon.
language: English
title: Aphra Behn's Afterlife
titlecomplete: Aphra Behn's Afterlife
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Oxford University Press