In this Book
- Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
summary
Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist from private to public terms, but also reveals in Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity."
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- 4. EVELINA: Trivial Pursuits
- pp. 78-108
- 5. CECILIA: Love and Work
- pp. 109-151
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813149721
Related ISBN(s)
9780813116334, 9780813132891, 9780813187518
MARC Record
OCLC
573010742
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No