Aphra Behn’s (Non)Canonicity as a Restoration Playwright by Maria José Coperías Aguilar

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Economic and Symbolic Transmissions in Women’s Novels: Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf traces a fascinating genealogy of women writers from Aphra Behn to George Eliot, including Frances Burney and Jane Austen among others, to emphasize the power of influence in relation to their engagement with both fiction and economics. …”
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Purging the Past and Gauging the Future: Stage Puritans as Manifestations of Religious Trauma in Restoration Comedies Adapted from European Sources (1660-1689) by Alice Marion-Ferrand

“…This paper focuses on five Restoration comedies with religious concerns composed between Charles II’s return to England and the Glorious Revolution, and adapted from French, Spanish and English (Elizabethan and Jacobean) sources: The Law Against Lovers (1663) by William Davenant, Tartuffe or the French Puritan (1670) by Matthew Medbourne, Sir Patient Fancy (1678) by Aphra Behn, The Spanish Fryar, or the Double-Discovery (1681) by John Dryden, and Sir Courtly Nice, or It Cannot Be (1685) by John Crowne. …”
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