ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Oroonoko, Travel Literature, Noble Savage
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If a businessman can keep his wife busy, then he was successful. Wife was regard as the angel of the house, aka maid. Discovery literature in the form of a memoir. French revolution aka the talk of rights. What is the role of oroonoko in the slave trade. In behn"s day, history can means both true and false. How did behn encourage the reader to interpret it as a piece of nonfiction. Did not distance herself from the narrator, but identified herself as the narrator. Truth claim throughout oroonoko as a parody to travel literature. Wanted to present herself as someone with a right background. Praised him to the sky in a romantic way but now the narrator worried that he would. Behn"s father actually died at the sea and was a hairdresser. The father however did not appoint as a lieutenant. Behn exaggerated her family rank in oroonoko come down and cut all our throats (pg 1265)
