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Frances Burney and narrative prior to ideology
- Title
- Frances Burney and narrative prior to ideology / Brian McCrea.
- Author
- McCrea, Brian.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 193 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology works between Burney's Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney's four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer. It describes Burney's eluding the major modern-isms through which critics have tried to read her: Feminism (with its "gendering" of beauty and reversal of gender roles); Capitalism and its Marxist critique (here the details of Burney's housekeeping become important); Professionalism (as a response to status inconsistency and class conflict); and Ian Watt's "Formal Realism" (Burney perhaps saved the novel from a sharp decline it suffered in the 1770s, even as she tried to distance herself from the genre)." -- Publisher website.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Dying to be handsome: or why we don't know what Burney's heroines look like -- Frances Burney and professional men: from Dr. Lyster to Mr. Naird, the surgeon -- No Jacobins here: Burney's perplexing (non) politics -- "My chevalier jardinier": courtship and marriage after patriarchy and before domesticity -- Resisting the "fascination of egotism" : Burney and formal realism -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-8789
- ISBN
- 9781611494815 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1611494818 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781611494822 (electronic)
- 1611494826 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2013023771
- OCLC
- 846544184
- Author
- McCrea, Brian.
- Title
- Frances Burney and narrative prior to ideology / Brian McCrea.
- Publisher
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-8789