Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love

I argue in this article that in Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave (1688) and The History of the Nun (1689), Aphra Behn forwards the connections between the feminised spaces of the seraglio and the convent, presenting them as equally exotic and gendered for the English reader, but also as e...

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Autor: Villegas López, Sonia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/16989
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Palabra clave:Aphra Behn
Early novel
Stories of nuns
Oriental tales
Seraglio and convent
Novela temprana
Historias de monjas
Narrativas orientales
Serrallo y convento
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spelling Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of loveVillegas López, SoniaAphra BehnEarly novelStories of nunsOriental talesSeraglio and conventNovela tempranaHistorias de monjasNarrativas orientalesSerrallo y conventoI argue in this article that in Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave (1688) and The History of the Nun (1689), Aphra Behn forwards the connections between the feminised spaces of the seraglio and the convent, presenting them as equally exotic and gendered for the English reader, but also as equally constraining for women in their everyday lives. In Oroonoko, the she-narrator instructs Imoinda into the narratives of the “civilized” west by reading diverting stories of nuns to her. At the same time, her tale in The History of the Nun represents the convent as another liminal space of interaction between the sexes which confines Isabella and originates her bouts of love and passion, following the model of the Lettres portugaises. This article will explore both spaces of confinement and the strictures Imoinda and Isabella experience in them, but also Behn’s originality as creator and narrator in making the two narrative models converge.Universidad de La Laguna20192019-01-0120192019-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10272/16989reponame:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelvainstname:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/169892026-06-02T14:58:11Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
title Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
spellingShingle Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
Villegas López, Sonia
Aphra Behn
Early novel
Stories of nuns
Oriental tales
Seraglio and convent
Novela temprana
Historias de monjas
Narrativas orientales
Serrallo y convento
title_short Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
title_full Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
title_fullStr Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
title_full_unstemmed Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
title_sort Seraglios and convents : Aphra Behn’s heroines in the house(s) of love
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Villegas López, Sonia
author Villegas López, Sonia
author_facet Villegas López, Sonia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Aphra Behn
Early novel
Stories of nuns
Oriental tales
Seraglio and convent
Novela temprana
Historias de monjas
Narrativas orientales
Serrallo y convento
topic Aphra Behn
Early novel
Stories of nuns
Oriental tales
Seraglio and convent
Novela temprana
Historias de monjas
Narrativas orientales
Serrallo y convento
description I argue in this article that in Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave (1688) and The History of the Nun (1689), Aphra Behn forwards the connections between the feminised spaces of the seraglio and the convent, presenting them as equally exotic and gendered for the English reader, but also as equally constraining for women in their everyday lives. In Oroonoko, the she-narrator instructs Imoinda into the narratives of the “civilized” west by reading diverting stories of nuns to her. At the same time, her tale in The History of the Nun represents the convent as another liminal space of interaction between the sexes which confines Isabella and originates her bouts of love and passion, following the model of the Lettres portugaises. This article will explore both spaces of confinement and the strictures Imoinda and Isabella experience in them, but also Behn’s originality as creator and narrator in making the two narrative models converge.
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