The Cambridge companion to Frances Burney / edited by Peter Sabor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabor, Peter, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840--Criticism and interpretation.

Burney, Fanny.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Frances Burney (1752-1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her first novel Evelina was a publishing sensation; her follow-up novels Cecilia and Camilla were regarded as among the best fiction of the time and were much admired by Jane Austen. Burney's life was equally remarkable: a protegee of Samuel Johnson, lady-in-waiting at the court of George III, later wife of an emigre aristocrat and stranded in France during the Napoleonic Wars, she lived on into the reign of Queen Victoria. Her journals and letters are now widely read as a rich source of information about the Court, social conditions and cultural changes over her long lifetime. This Companion is the first volume to cover all her works, including her novels, plays, journals and letters, in a comprehensive and accessible way. It also includes discussion of her critical reputation, and a guide to further reading.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Sabor

The Burney family / Kate Chisolm

Evelina and Cecilia / Jane Spencer

Camilla and The wanderer / Sara Salih

Burney as dramatist / Tara Ghoshal Wallace

Journals and letters / John Wiltshire

Burney and politics / Margaret Anne Doody

Burney and gender / Vivien Jones

Burney and society / Betty Rizzo

Burney and the literary marketplace / George Justice

The afterlife and further reading / Lorna Clark.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81749-3

1-139-00141-8