JANET TODD is a Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia. A former fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Professor at Rutgers University, she has also taught at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and the University of Puerto Rico.

• AcknowledgementsGeneral Editors' PrefaceIntroduction;  J.ToddWho Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra Behn;  C.GallagherGestus   and Signature in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover';   E.Diamond'Suspect my loyalty when I lose my virtue': Sexual Politics and Party in Aphra Behn's Plays of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-83;   S.J.OwenSpectacular Death: History and Story in 'The Widow Ranter';   J.Todd'But to the touch were soft': Pleasure, Power and Impotence in 'The Disappointment' and 'The Golden Age';   J.MunnsDesire and the Uncoupling of Myth in Behn's Erotic Poems;   C.BarashGender and Narrative in the Fiction of Aphra Behn;   J.PearsonLove-Letters:   Engendering Desire;   R.BallasterBeyond Incest: Gender and the Politics of Transgression in Aphra Behn's 'Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister';   E.PollakThe Romance of Empire: 'Oroonoko' and the Trade in Slaves;   L.BrownJuggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko'; M.FergusonFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.