The life of Madam de Beaumount ; and, The life of Charlotta du Pont / Penelope Aubin ; edited by David A. Brewer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738, author.

Contributor:

Brewer, David A. (David Allen), 1969- editor.

Series:

Broadview editions

Standardized Title:

Novels. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, English--18th century--Fiction.

Women authors, English.

English fiction--Great Britain--18th century.

English fiction.

Genre:

Novels

Novels.

Physical Description:

311 pages ; 22 cm.

Distribution:

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, NY : Distribution in North America, Broadview Press

Other Title:

Life of Charlotta du Pont

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada : Broadview Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The prose fiction of Penelope Aubin, including the two texts included in this edition--The Life of Madam de Beaumount (1721) and The Life of Charlotta Du Pont (1723), offers a delightful and provocative challenge to many of our standard ways of thinking about both the "rise of the novel" in eighteenth-century Britain and about women writers in that era. Aubin's fast-paced and geographically wide-ranging work highlights the persistence and vitality of romance as a form of storytelling and the centrality of teenaged girls to tales that extend far beyond the domestic and amatory modes with which women writers have traditionally been associated. Aubin's resourceful heroines and the often spectacular violence they engage in in order to defend their lives and bodily integrity against threats of kidnapping, rape, and captivity allow us a more expansive and exciting view of early eighteenth-century fiction and its aesthetic, moral, and political engagements than the current classroom canon often permits. In narratives spanning the globe and featuring pirates, North African corsairs, Jacobites, shipwrecks, and seraglios, Aubin delivers a form of fiction with roots that go back to antiquity and commitments that often feel far more modern than most other texts from the eighteenth century."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738. Life of Madam de Beaumount.

Container of: Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738. Life of Charlotta du Pont.

Other Format:

Online version: Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738. Novels. Selections. Life of Madam de Beaumount ; and, The life of Charlotta du Pont.

ISBN:

9781554813537

1554813530

OCLC:

1370904012