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ERIC Number: EJ577055
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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"Beauteous Wonder of a Different Kind": Aphra Behn's Destabilization of Sexual Categories.
Martin, Roberta C.
College English, v61 n2 p192-210 Nov 1998
Suggests that the poetry and the life of Aphra Behn illumines the dynamic of a fascinating transitional period in definitions of gender and sexuality; and that she was the true pioneer of this brave new world of sexual possibility in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (RS)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Poetry, Self Concept, Seventeenth Century Literature, Sex Role, Sexual Identity
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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