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.
David A. Brewer is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the editor of the Broadview Edition of The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe.