Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sexual politics and party politics in Behn's drama, 1678-83 / Susan J. Owen -- Popish plots : The Feign'd Curtizans in context / Alison Shell -- Fiction feigning femininity : false counts and pageant kings in Aphra Behn's Popish Plot writings / Ros Ballaster -- More for seeing than hearing : Behn and the use of theatre / Dawn Lewcock -- The Rover and the eighteenth century / Jane Spencer -- Aphra Behn : poetry and masquerade / Paul Salzman -- F̀or when the act is done and finish't cleane, what should the poet doe, but shift the scene?' : propaganda, professionalism and Aphra Behn / Virginia Crompton -- Aphra Behn : the politics of translation / Elizabeth Spearing -- B̀ut to the touch were soft' : pleasure, power, and impotence in T̀he disappointment' and T̀he golden age' / Jessica Munns -- Who is Silvia? What is she? Feminine identity in Aphra Behn's Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister / Janet Todd -- Slave princes and lady monsters : gender and ethnic difference in the work of Aphra Behn / Jacqueline Pearson -- Oroonoko's blackness / Catherine Gallagher -- Confusing matters : searching the backgrounds of Oroonoko / Joanna Lipking -- Private jottings, public utterances : Aphra Behn's published writings and her commonplace book / Mary Ann O'Donnell -- New light on the background and early life of Aphra Behn / Jane Jones.