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Evelina : or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world : authoritative text, contexts and contemporary reactions, criticism
- Title
- Evelina : or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world : authoritative text, contexts and contemporary reactions, criticism / Frances Burney ; edited by Stewart J. Cooke.
- Author
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cooke, Stewart J.
- Description
- x, 490 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- A young woman named Evelina innocently enters the world of eighteenth-century London society, blissfully unaware of its very real dangers. Includes contemporary reviews, fourteen critical essays, a chronology, and other reference materials.
- Series Statement
- A Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Evelina
- Norton critical edition.
- Alternative Title
- Evelina
- History of a young lady's entrance into the world
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Epistolary fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Satirical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-490).
- Contents
- The text of Evelina -- Conduct books: Modesty -- Passivity -- Wit -- Learning -- Aging -- Dangerous connections -- Inequality -- Love -- Amusements -- Theatre -- Dancing -- Publication of Evelina / Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney] -- Extracts from the journals and letters / Frances Burney -- Dedication to The wanderer / Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney] -- Reviews: London review -- Monthly review -- Westminster magazine -- Critical review -- Gentleman's magazine -- Miss Burney / Anna Letitia Barbauld -- The spirit of cockneyism [on Burney's characters] / William Hazlitt -- Review of The wanderer / John Wilson Croker -- [On Burney's art] [On Burney's mortality] / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The mother of English fiction / Virginia Woolf -- The composition of Evelina / Joyce Hemlow -- Fanny Burney's feminism: gender or genre? / Martha G. Brown -- Cinderella or Bluebeard: the double plot of Evelina / Kenneth W. Graham -- Evelina: marriage as a dangerous die / Kristina Straub -- How to read like a gentleman: Burney's instructions to her criticsin Evelina / Gina Campbell -- Getting waylaid in Evelina / Susan Fraiman -- Beyond Evelina: the individual novel and the community of literature / Margaret Anne Doody.
- Call Number
- JFD 98-8051
- ISBN
- 0393971589
- 9780393971583
- LCCN
- 96054869
- 9780393971583
- OCLC
- 36165269
- Author
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
- Title
- Evelina : or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world : authoritative text, contexts and contemporary reactions, criticism / Frances Burney ; edited by Stewart J. Cooke.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1998.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Norton critical editionNorton critical edition.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-490).
- Added Author
- Cooke, Stewart J., editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780393971583
- Research Call Number
- JFD 98-8051