Frances Burney - The Life in the Works

Klappentext This 1989 book analyzes Frances Burney's published novels as well as her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published. Zusammenfassung In this 1989 book! Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only Frances Burney's published novels! but her plays! fragments of novels! poems! and other works never published. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and short titles; A Burney family tree; Introduction; 1. Frances: or, a young lady's entrance into life; 2. Evelina: or A Young Lady's Entrance into the World; 3. The Witlings: the finished comedy; 4. Cecilia: or, Memoirs of an Heiress; 5. Love, loss, and imprisonment: the Windsor and Kew tragedies; 6. Marriage, 'Clarinda', and Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth; 7. Camilla: mysteries, clues, and guilty characters; 8. Incest, bereavement, and the late comic plays; 9. The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties: revolution, the Rights of Women, and 'The Wild Edifice'; 10. End of story; Conclusion; Notes; Index; Index of works.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Doody, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Anne (University of Notre Dame Doody, Doody Margaret Anne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521158923
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15892-3
• No. of pages: 478
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Biography: writers, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form