Aphra Behn's Miscellanies: The Politics and Poetics of Editing.(Critical Essay)

Philological Quarterly | June 22, 1998| | Copyright

In the 1680s Aphra Behn published widely in many genres, including fiction, poetry, and drama; she also edited Miscellany (1685) and Lycidus (1688), two miscellanies which included poetry and poetic translations by a number of contributors.(1) By editing miscellanies, Behn demonstrated her membership in a number of literary circles and her professional investment in literary production.(2) The range of contributors to Behn's volumes, the subjects of the poems included, and their placement in relation to each other in the miscellanies, suggest that Behn was deliberately ...

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