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Frances Burney, Dramatist : Gender, Performance, and the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage / Barbara Darby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darby, Barbara, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women in the theater--England--History--18th century.
- Women in the theater.
- Feminism and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840--Dramatic works.
- Burney, Fanny.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The position Frances Burney (1752-1840) holds as a novelist, journalist, and letterwriter is now undisputed, thanks to reevaluations of the canon in recent years. Yet Burney was always intrigued by, and wrote for, the stage. Though only one of Burney's dramas was performed in her lifetime, Barbara Darby places the plays in the context of performance and feminist theory, challenging past assertions about Burney that were based entirely on her novels and journals. Darby maintains that in exposing the failure of such practices and institutions as courtship, marriage, family, government, and the c
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Gender and the Stage; 2. Censored Women: The Witlings; 3. Politicized Bodies and the Body Politic: Edwy and Elgiva and Elberta; 4. The Daughter's Tragedy: Hubert De Vere and The Siege of Pevensey; 5. ""Choice"" and Evaluation: Love and Fashion; 6. Family Matters: A Busy Day and The Woman-Hater; 7. A Context and Overview: Burney and the Late-Eighteenth-Centur Stage; Conclusion: Really a Genius for the Stage; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-226) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813159317
- 0813159318
- OCLC:
- 605156369
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