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Aphra: An Intriguing Name

A student in the other section of this class did a little research into Aphra Behn's first name. Click the link above to see her posting....

Claims of authenticity

For anyone who is fascinated by Aphra Behn's resort to the convention of truth-claims -- that is, her claims about the authenticity of her text -- here is another example of such a claim from the later fictionalized travel narrative "Persian Letters" (1721) by the great Enlightenment philosophe Montesquieu. See especially the fourth paragraph. In this narrative, it is the Persians who visit Europe (Paris), and not the other way around. (A "seraglio," by the way, is a harem.) --Lincoln

For everyone: about posting to the Blog

Hi, folks,

For those who are new to this, what I'd like you to do is to post to the main blog itself (i.e., just like this posting), and not as much to the "comments" section (which is reserved for responding to another person's original blog posting).

Once you've responded to your invitation, you can post to Mardi by signing in at Blogger.com and then clicking on "Mardi." Now click on the tab called "Posting" and then on "Create." You should now see a form where you can enter a subject line and a post message.

For someone who asked, my intention is that you'll write about anything related to the course -- keeping in mind the importance of respectfulness towards other posters, of course. I named our blog "Mardi" just to have a hint of local Mobile culture.

Let me know if you have any difficulty.

Greetings.

This is the blog for EH236-101. Post away.