1st Edition
Penelope Aubin Poet, Novelist, Negotiator, Businesswoman
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.
Biography
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.
