Penelope Aubin
Poet, Novelist, Negotiator, Businesswoman
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 6. October 2026
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-1-041-13966-9 (ISBN)
Description
Penelope Aubin: Poet, Novelist, Negotiator, Businesswoman offers a dynamic appraisal of Penelope Aubin, bringing together new scholarship that situates her work at the intersection of religion, empire, gender, and literary experimentation.
Ranging across her novels, poetry, and drama, the essays illuminate Aubin's engagement with global geographies, political debate, and the shifting boundaries between romance and the emerging novel. Contributors explore themes including enslavement before racialization, cartographic imagination, satire, providential narrative, and incongruous humor, while reassessing her role in early eighteenth-century literary culture.
By placing Aubin alongside various contemporary and modern contexts, and within broader transnational and theoretical frameworks, this volume demonstrates her importance as an innovative and intellectually ambitious writer. Together, these studies challenge critical neglect and redefine Aubin as a central figure whose works reshape our understanding of fiction, authorship, and cultural thought in the early modern Atlantic world.
Ranging across her novels, poetry, and drama, the essays illuminate Aubin's engagement with global geographies, political debate, and the shifting boundaries between romance and the emerging novel. Contributors explore themes including enslavement before racialization, cartographic imagination, satire, providential narrative, and incongruous humor, while reassessing her role in early eighteenth-century literary culture.
By placing Aubin alongside various contemporary and modern contexts, and within broader transnational and theoretical frameworks, this volume demonstrates her importance as an innovative and intellectually ambitious writer. Together, these studies challenge critical neglect and redefine Aubin as a central figure whose works reshape our understanding of fiction, authorship, and cultural thought in the early modern Atlantic world.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen, 7 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-13966-9 (9781041139669)
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Persons
Stan Booth is an associate lecturer in English literature at the University of Winchester, specializing in eighteenth-century impairment studies, other-world fictions, ethics, and bioethics. He co-edited The Variable Body in History (2015), Bodies of Information (2019), and Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics (2021).
Chris Mounsey transitioned from theatre to academia following an accident that sparked his passion for literature. He teaches at the University of Winchester and specializes in eighteenth-century literature, with publications including Christopher Smart: Clown of God (2001), Being the Body of Christ (2012), and Sight Correction (2019). He has edited numerous volumes on gender, sexuality, disability, and bioethics, and is currently completing a monograph on blind mathematician Nicholas Saunderson.
Chris Mounsey transitioned from theatre to academia following an accident that sparked his passion for literature. He teaches at the University of Winchester and specializes in eighteenth-century literature, with publications including Christopher Smart: Clown of God (2001), Being the Body of Christ (2012), and Sight Correction (2019). He has edited numerous volumes on gender, sexuality, disability, and bioethics, and is currently completing a monograph on blind mathematician Nicholas Saunderson.
Content
Penelope Aubin: A Bibliography and Brief Biography; Introduction: A Survey of work on Aubin; Section A: Geographical; Chapter 1 - Mapping Huguenot History in The Life of Charlotta Du Pont; Chapter 2 - "Between Japan and California:" Pacific Geography and East Asian Culture in Penelope Aubin's The Noble Slaves; Chapter 3 - Reading the "whole Penelope Aubin: Young Count Albertus, the last novel; Section B: Sociological; Chapter 4 - 'Surprised she took her Flight:' Penelope Aubin's Occasional Poetry, 1707-9; Chapter 5 - Penelope Aubin, translator of Robert Challe; Chapter 6 - Romancing the Providential Novel: Penelope Aubin's (Doomed?) Defense of Don Quixote; Section C: Application; Chapter 7 - The Character-Systems of Penelope Aubin; or, Narrative Theory in the Seraglio; Chapter 8 - Penelope Aubin and The Brittas Empire; Chapter 9 - Marriage, Tory Consent, and Masquerade in The Merry Masqueraders; or The Humorous Cuckold; Appendix - Full text of The Wellcome, by Penelope Aubin, 1709. Otherwise not readily available.