The life of Madam de Beaumount, and, The life of Charlotta du Pont
"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&q...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Broadview Press
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Broadview editions
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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." |
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| Beschreibung: | 311 Seiten 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781554813537 978-1-55481-353-7 |