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

The Life of Madame de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta du Pont
Author: Penelope Aubin
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770488790

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 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 allow us a more expansive and exciting view of early eighteenth-century fiction 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.

The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lady (Dodo Press)

The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lady (Dodo Press)
Author: Penelope Aubin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781409979203

Penelope Aubin (c. 1679-c. 1738) was an English novelist and translator. Her works include: The Stuarts: A Pindarique Ode (1707), The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to Her Majesty The Queen (1708), The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and His Family (1721), The Life of Madam de Beaumount, A French Lady (1721), The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (1721), The Noble Slaves; or, The Lives and Adventures of Two Lords and Two Ladies (1722), History of Genghizcan the Great (1722), The Life of Charlotta du Pont, An English Lady (1723) and The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (1726).

Monstrous Motherhood

Monstrous Motherhood
Author: Marilyn Francus
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421407981

Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era of ideal motherhood. Although credited with the rise of domesticity, eighteenth-century British culture singularly lacked narratives of good mothers, ostensibly the most domestic of females. With startling frequency, the best mother was absent, disembodied, voiceless, or dead. British culture told tales almost exclusively of wicked, surrogate, or spectral mothers—revealing the defects of domestic ideology, the cultural fascination with standards and deviance, and the desire to police maternal behaviors. Monstrous Motherhood analyzes eighteenth-century motherhood in light of the inconsistencies among domestic ideology, narrative, and historical practice. If domesticity was so important, why is the good mother’s story absent or peripheral? What do the available maternal narratives suggest about domestic ideology and the expectations and enactment of motherhood? By focusing on literary and historical mothers in novels, plays, poems, diaries, conduct manuals, contemporary court cases, realist fiction, fairy tales, satire, and romance, Marilyn Francus reclaims silenced maternal voices and perspectives. She exposes the mechanisms of maternal marginalization and spectralization in eighteenth-century culture and revises the domesticity thesis. Monstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women’s studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields.

How The Wind Sits: The History of Henry and Ann Lemoine, Chapbook Writers and Publishers of the Late Eighteenth Century

How The Wind Sits: The History of Henry and Ann Lemoine, Chapbook Writers and Publishers of the Late Eighteenth Century
Author: Roy Bearden-White
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 138705726X

During the 18th century, not all books were found in bookstores or libraries. In London, itenerate book salesmen wandered the streets hawking their wares. The books they sold were cheap and often poorly printed, but they represented the beginnings of popular reading among the growing lower classes. Henry and Ann Lemoine were among the most prolific writers and publishers of street literature in the late eighteenth-century and theirs is a story of poverty, greed, prison, and female empowerment.

British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730

British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730
Author: Margarette Lincoln
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317171675

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards them changed with Britain’s growing imperial power, exploring the interface between political ambition and personal greed, between civil liberties and the power of the state. It throws light on contemporary ideals of leadership and masculinity - some pirate voyages qualifying as feats of seamanship and endurance. Unusually, it also gives insights into the domestic life of pirates and investigates the experiences of women whose husbands turned pirate or were captured for piracy. Pirate voyages contributed to British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and different peoples in remote parts of the world. This knowledge advanced imperial expansion and British control of trade routes, which helps to explain why contemporary attitudes towards piracy were often ambivalent. This is an engaging study of vested interests and conflicting ideologies. It offers comparisons with our experience of piracy today and shows how the historic representation of pirate behaviour can illuminate other modern preoccupations, including gang culture.

Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind

Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind
Author: Mary Anne Schofield
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780874133653

This work concentrates on how eighteenth-century feminine novelists articulate the concerns important to women's lives and fates, and argues that these novelists used their romances to combat the controlling ideologies of the age.

The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set

The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set
Author: Gary Day
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1524
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444330209

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com