Cecilia - Or Memoirs of an Heiress

Zusatztext 'scholarly edition ... a welcome addition to the roster of available eighteenth-century texts ... Scholars will undoubtedly prefer this edition of Cecilia for its textual accuracy and will appreciate the help that the various appendices and the annotation will give to students'Elizabeth Brophy! College of New Rochelle! Eighteenth-Century Fiction Informationen zum Autor Peter Sabor is Professor of English at Queen's University, Ontario.Margaret Anne Doody is Professor of English at Princeton. Klappentext This novel is an unusual and disturbing love-story. In playing on the issue of the heroine's name, the novel illustrates the high cost of a patriarchal system. Burney exhibits her powers as a comic writer and a satirist in depicting Cecilia's dismaying entry into the gilded fashionable world. This edition presents 'Cecilia' as it first appeared in 1782, indicating changes Burney made to later editions. Zusammenfassung Cecilia is an heiress! but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy! humanity! and social analysis. Controversial in its time! this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century concerns. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship! providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features! including expert introductions by leading authorities! helpful notes to clarify the text! up-to-date bibliographies for further study! and much more.

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• Authors: Fanny Burney, Frances Burney
• Assisted by: Margaret A. Doody (Editor), Margaret Anne Doody (Editor), Margaret Anne (Professor of English Doody (Editor), Doody Margaret Anne (Editor), Peter Sabor (Editor), Peter (Professor of English Sabor (Editor), Sabor Peter (Editor), Margaret Anne Doody (Introduction), Doody Margaret Anne (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.09.2008
• EAN: 9780199552382
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955238-2
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 47 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary