Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677) - A Newsletter Guide

The Rover carnivalesque liminality, Aphra Behn social transgression, Mikhail Bakhtin Carnival, AS and A Level English Literature Commodification of women The Rover, Marriage market Restoration comedy, Aphra Behn feminist critique economics Libertinism in The Rover, Willmore character analysis male privilege, Restoration rake hero critique

Hellena proto-feminist heroine The Rover, Female wit and agency Aphra Behn, Subverting patriarchy Restoration drama

Angelica Bianca tragic courtesan, Limits of female agency The Rover, Feminist literary criticism Aphra Behn

Disguise and identity The Rover, Gender as performance Aphra Behn, Hellena cross-dressing analysis

Royalist exiles The Rover, Restoration politics Charles II context, New Historicism Aphra Behn