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JACOBEAN AND RESTORATION PROSE WRITING, POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL -…

- - - - Royal Society founded in London in 1660, first scientific society in the UK which received a royal charter by King Charles II in 1662. It contributed to the improvement of English prose, its members had to employ only concise and utilitarian prose style suitable to the clear communication of scientific thought
- - - - Pastoral romance in prose and verse strongly inspired by Sidney's Arcadia and written from a female perspective as it includes a series of tales about women married to unsuitable husbands or bound to unfaithful lovers. The work uses a pastoral setting to represent contemporary events related to court life, its scandals and figures.
        It also includes a collection of sonnets PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTUS in Elizabethan style but differ from the sonnet tradition as the speaking voice is that of a woman addressing to a man
  - - - OROONKO, OR THE ROYAL SLAVE 1688
        
        Plot
        
        inspired by her experience as a royal spy in a sugar colony in Surinam during the Anglo-Dutch War for the domination of the world trade in 1665. Story of Oroonko, high-minded grandson of an African King who falls in love with the Princess Imoinda. Their mutual happiness is soon destroyed by the king who takes Imonda as a concubine by divine right and later sells her into slavery when he discovers that she is still in love with Oroonko. Oroonko is also sold as a slave and is briefly reunited with Imoinda in Surinam. Here he organises a rebellion hut he is eventually betrayed, captured, tortured and executed.
        
        Features and themes
        
        one of the very early narratives in English having a linear plot and following g a biographical model. It combines 3 prose forms:
        
        the memoir personal account of what the narrator experienced in the colony
        
        travel narrative about the voyage to a new world
        
        biography of a fictional African Prince enslaved in Surinam
        
        It mixes first and third person narrator, as the narrator relates the actions in Africa and portrays herself as a witness of those taking place in Surinam. The narrator's experiences are intermingled with the main plot about Oroonko and Imoinda's love story.
        First English work to offer a critical view of European colonialism by depicting the degradation and suffering of human slavery and showing Black Africans in a sympathetic manner. Indigenous people and noble Africans live by a code of virtue, principles of fidelity and honour that the so-called civilised Christians seem to ignore.
      - Also Letters between a nobleman and his sister roman a la clef, describing real events behind a facade of fiction