Life of Madame de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta du Pont

• Utgivningsdatum: 2023-08-03
• Mått: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 405 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 312
• Förlag: Broadview Press Ltd
• ISBN: 9781554813537

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<p>“Just try to read this Broadview Edition of Penelope Aubin’s fiction without pumping your fist in the air. Aubin’s work is ripe for revisiting, and David Brewer’s sharp and accessible introduction will make her texts newly available to readers. He gives us a fresh look at Aubin, highlighting her theory of fiction and her embrace of kick-ass teenage girls. His judicious and accessible annotations provide students with important historical context and help with tricky vocabulary. I look forward to teaching this edition to majors and non-majors alike.” — Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Baruch College, City University of New York</p><p>“It’s a delight to have two of Penelope Aubin’s extravagant and wondrous works available in such a superb and useful edition. Though neglected and even despised by literary historians of the novel, Aubin’s fictions are compelling examples of the important and immensely popular river of adventure stories that flowed throughout early modern Europe. David Brewer’s excellent introduction and well-curated supporting documents will help students and scholars reassess Aubin’s supposedly ‘bad’ novels within a broader, more expansive global history of ‘badass’ fiction.” — Scott Black, University of Utah</p><p>“Penelope Aubin’s wild, violent, thoroughly unembarrassed writing is one of the great hidden treasures of eighteenth-century literature. David Brewer has prepared a wonderfully clear-eyed and informative edition of two of her most teachable works. Aubin, who led a life touched by merchants, dissolute noblemen, and the occasional pirate, was so threatening to the establishment that a literary rival tried to proclaim she was dead years before her time. Her reputation suffered, however, when she was declared preemptively virtuous, thereby depriving generations of readers of her irreverent pleasures. This welcome edition goes a long way towards setting things right.” — Manushag Powell, Purdue University</p><p>“Brewer has significantly contributed not only to the recovery but also to a richer, more thoughtful assessment of a woman novelist who not only represents a counter-canonical novel tradition but also loyalty to an ancient romance tradition elided by the canonization of the eighteenth-century British novel.” — Sam Cahill</p><p>“Brewer’s work in this volume is comprehensive. It allows an excellent point of entry for scholars new and experienced with Aubin’s fiction and offers a solid foundation for a wide range of academic interests. To Brewer’s point, 'we are still very much in the midst of figuring out how best to read Aubin and assess her place in literary history' (291). The impressive scope of this volume as it maps political, historical, religious, and social landscapes is a major step in that direction.” — Heather Heckman-McKenna, University of Missouri</p>

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