Chris Mounsey

Standard Name: Mounsey, Chris

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Penelope Aubin
This appeared, like The Life of Madam de Beaumount, with a frontispiece. It is dedicated to Lady Coleraine , with thanks for her patronage of the author's husband .
Though the widow of the...
Literary responses Penelope Aubin
Critic Chris Mounsey believes that commentators on PA have been hoodwinked by her claim to be a moral author (first stated in the preface to this first novel and frequently repeated), and have accepted self-righteous...
Literary responses Penelope Aubin
Critic Chris Mounsey thinks this novel too like a Haywood sex-romp for PA to wish to attach her name to it.
Mounsey, Chris. “’ . . . bring her naked from her Bed, that I may ravish her before the Dotard’s face, and then send his Soul to Hell’: Penelope Aubin, Impious Pietist, Humourist or Purveyor of Juvenile Fantasy?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, pp. 55-75.
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Debbie Welham reads it as a message of encouragement in hard times.
Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubin’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda</span> (1721)”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
20
, No. 1, pp. 49-63.
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Literary responses Penelope Aubin
Chris Mounsey thinks this novel and its sequel the most pornographic of all Aubin's work, partly on account of the drugging and raping that they feature.
Mounsey, Chris. “’ . . . bring her naked from her Bed, that I may ravish her before the Dotard’s face, and then send his Soul to Hell’: Penelope Aubin, Impious Pietist, Humourist or Purveyor of Juvenile Fantasy?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, pp. 55-75.
63
Reception Penelope Aubin
PA 's long-held reputation as the most moral among her early generation of novelists seems set for re-evaluation in the face of Chris Mounsey 's argument that her fiction grew increasingly pornographic from one work...

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Mounsey, Chris. “’ . . . bring her naked from her Bed, that I may ravish her before the Dotard’s face, and then send his Soul to Hell’: Penelope Aubin, Impious Pietist, Humourist or Purveyor of Juvenile Fantasy?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, pp. 55-75.