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The Rover secondary critics

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Boebel: Roving and Rape in Behn's Rover
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Boebel: Roving and Rape in Behn's Rover
'carnivalesque freedom... locked women into a sexual double bind as oppressive... as the moral and spiritual double bind that Puritan preachers inflicted on women under the guise of liberating them'
Fitzmaurice: The Language of Gender and a textual problem in Aphra Behn's "The Rover"
'Freedom gives Willmore license to womanize. Freedom for Hellena allows the throwing off of unwanted restrictions on her behavior and helps her to challenge male prerogatives.'
Payne: The Carnivalesque Regeneration of Corrupt Economies in "The Rover"
'allow her to follow her true inclinations rather than...the conventionalised "disguise" of nun or marriage token, just as the carnival allows her a freedom from the constraints of hierarchical culture.'
Diamond: Gestus and Signature in Aphra Behn's the Rover
'not only are marriages loveless, but once married, women lose both independent identity and control of their fortune'