Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney - Volume V: 1789

Zusatztext Immaculately edited, generously footnoted and with a comprehensive introduction. Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Sill received his PhD. in 1974 from the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Defoe and the Idea of Fiction (1983), The Cure of the Passions and the Origins of the English Novel (2001), and articles on Walt Whitman, Daniel Defoe, and Frances Burney. He is the co-editor (with Peter Sabor and Stewart Cooke) of The Complete Plays of Frances Burney and (with Gabriel Cervantes) of an edition of Defoe's Colonel Jack. Klappentext The fifth of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, to her resignation in July 1791. This volume brings together the letters and journals of 1789. Zusammenfassung The fifth of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, to her resignation in July 1791. This volume brings together the letters and journals of 1789. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction Short Titles and Abbreviations Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney from 1 January to 31 December 1789 Index

Sommario

• List of Illustrations


• Introduction


• Short Titles and Abbreviations


• Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney


• from 1 January to 31 December 1789


• Index

Relazione

The Facinations of this volume lie in these occasional flashes of the Burney of Evelina and Cecilia, and the way, almost by accident, she reveals court life at its most regressive - snobbish, insular, gossipy. Kate Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Geoffrey Sill, Geoffrey (Professor of English Sill
• Con la collaborazione di: Geoffrey Sill (Editore), Geoffrey (Professor of English Sill (Editore), Sill Geoffrey (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.11.2016
• EAN: 9780199262076
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926207-6
• Pagine: 558
• Serie: Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney 1786 - 1791; Court Journals and Letters of
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