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2 février 2018
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- isbn: 9782878541793
- eisbn: 9782878548563
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Bernard Dhuicq, « Aphra Behn (1640-1689) : du régicide à la Glorieuse Révolution », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.5aspai
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Aphra Behn's life spans one of the most tumultuous periods in English history. Her writings reflect the upheavals she lived through as well as the fears of their repetitions. Although contemporary events led her to adhere to the ideology of absolutism, as represented in the Coronation portrait of Charles II, her social status, “professionalism” and “feminism” helped her voice her economic independence. This stance, running counter to absolutism, accounts for her ambiguities and transgressions, It is also reflected in the less formal and less hieratic position of James II in his Coronation portrait. Indeed the advent of the Great Nassau, a “constitutional” monarch, left Aphra Behn bereft. Nevertheless her “personal voice” and her pleas against all forms of social constraint make her an outstandingly modem figure in the seventeenth-century context.