Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: A Wide Angle on the Muses 1 one In the Beginning 13 two “In the Novel Way, There Is No Danger”: Transmodal Adaptations and Transtextuality in Evelina 48 three Caliban’s Mirror: The Witlings 90 four The Theater and the City: Cecilia 133 five Texts, Bodies, Performance: Staging Madness in Cecilia and The Wanderer 191 Appendix: An Index to Frances Burney’s Theatralia, 1768–1804 223 Notes 245 Bibliography 285 Index 301 ...