Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
โ Scribed by Burney, Fanny
- Book ID
- 106870233
- Publisher
- printed for T. Lowndes
- Year
- 1779
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 249 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
The text is that of the third edition text of this influential novel,which incorporates all of Burney's changes."Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates eighteenth-centuryculture with selections from conduct books for women. Extracts fromBurney's letters and journals and five contemporary reviews are alsoincluded."Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about thenovel.The critics include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John WilsonCroker, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, MarthaG. Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, SusanFraiman, amd Margaret Anne Doody.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Raised in seclusion until her seventeenth birthday, Evelina is exposed to London society for the first time while in the company of the fashionable Lady Howard. Evelina's lack of aristocratic upbringing quickly becomes apparent, but undaunted by her lack of awareness of the customs and conventions o