Format:
217 pages
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illustrations
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22 cm
Edition:
Issued also in electronic formats
ISBN:
9781554816231
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1554816238
Series Statement:
Broadview editions
Content:
"The framing narrative in The Noble Slaves takes the form of a series of shipwrecks, periods of captivity, escapes, and the eventual reunion of two married couples. Penelope Aubin reworks the story of a castaway in Robinson Crusoe but makes women the central characters; the novel can be seen as a woman-centric revision of Defoe. Representing the East as the site of despotism and unbridled lust, it is also an important example of Orientalist narratives and a distinctive inflection of the many tales of aristocratic, heroic love that formed the mass of fiction in the early modern period. Despite the author's claim to avoid 'those loose Writings which debauch the Mind' in a work which will offer the reader virtuous models to imitate, The Noble Slaves is not lacking in sexual incident, violence, transgression and adventure, all introduced at giddying speed--but it also participates in complex ways in the debate about tyranny and slavery that informed discussion about power in the state, the family, and marriage in the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Issued also in electronic formats
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1460408233
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738 Noble slaves Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2023 ISBN 1460408233
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781770488915
Language:
English
Author information:
Aubin, Penelope 1679-1731
