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Aphra Behn The Dumb Virgin, or, the force of imagination

Aphra Behn The Dumb Virgin, or, the force of imagination. ENGLISH 089. Class plan. Announcements Background on Aphra Behn and The Dumb Virgin Discussion Question Group Work Group roundup More information on the paper. Announcements. Read article by Emily Bowles for Tuesday (on Sakai)

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Aphra Behn The Dumb Virgin, or, the force of imagination

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  1. AphraBehnThe Dumb Virgin, or, the force of imagination ENGLISH 089

  2. Class plan • Announcements • Background on AphraBehn and The Dumb Virgin • Discussion Question Group Work • Group roundup • More information on the paper

  3. Announcements • Read article by Emily Bowles for Tuesday (on Sakai) • Next week we start Milton, select poems and Paradise Lost sections as well as article from DSR • Romance Studies having a conference at the end of this week with some panels of interest to us. Here is the link to the flyer: https://ccrs.unc.edu/files/2017/03/CCRS-2017-Program.pdf • Finally, who is espn65005210? They are in the lead!

  4. AphraBehn 1640-1689 Much of her life is based on conjecture, so here’s what scholars have put together. Born Aphra Johnson in Canterbury in 1640. She probably lived in Surinam in 1663-1664. “Perhaps” married a Mr. Behn, though no records survive. Served King Charles II as a spy in Antwerp in 1666-67; served time in debtor’s prison due to debts incurred as said spy which Charles II failed to pay (classy, amiright?)

  5. Then she goes to the theater, putting up no fewer than 15 plays, the most famous of which is The Rover (1677), about the antics of lascivious Englishmen abroad that involves vengeful courtesans and crossdressing virgins who don’t want to join a convent. Hijinks ensue. In the meantime, she also wrote poetry and prose fiction. Her most famous work today is Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave (1688) which recounts the tragic love story of two slaves as told by an English female narrator. Virginia Woolf on Behn: “ All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of AphraBehn, ...for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

  6. Related concepts Maternal Impression Sign language

  7. Maternal Impression Some hold the imagination of the woman to be a great cause, by beholding either such Monsters, or such Pictures, and that’s the reason, they say, that they are so frequent in Egypt: So also you may read of some, that brought forth a Blackmore, the woman beholding the Picture of a Blackmore hanging in her Chamber: and of a woman as Pisa, that brought forth a Child full of Hair like a Camel, because she was so superstitiously wise to kneel every day to the Picture of John the Baptistcloathed in Camels- Hair. Also I my self know a woman this day living, that in the time of her Conception fixing her Eyes and Mind much upon a Boy with two Thumbs on each Hand, sitting at Dinner by her, brought forth a Boy with as many her self: this I say, may be the cause of some deformity. Culpeper, 140.

  8. Lip reading Sir KenelmDigby’s Treatise on the Nature of Bodies (1644) includes a chapter on haering where he discusses a Spaniard is deaf and has learned to expertly read lips. Digby also discusses methods of sign language developed by Ponce de Leon and Boney. 1678 Rev. Dr. Jonhn Wallis claims to teach the deaf in England. 1670 George SibscotaThe Deaf and Dumb Man’s Discourse

  9. The dumb virgin, or, the force of imaginationDiscussion groups • Discuss each of your questions that you came up with. As a group, then determine TWQ points of discussion for the class. Include the following for each one. • Discussion point • Relevant quotes from the work • Questions for the class on how it intersects with disability theor • We will then bring these points back to the class for discussion.

  10. Paper and Presentation Review paper topics and answer questions

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