Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Norton Critical Editions)

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Pub. Date: 1998-01-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

"Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates eighteenth-centuryculture with selections from conduct books for women. Extracts fromBurney's letters and journals and five contemporary reviews are alsoincluded. "Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about thenovel. The critics include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John WilsonCroker, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, MarthaG. Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, SusanFraiman, amd Margaret Anne Doody. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The Text of Evelina
1(340)
Contexts and Contemporary Reactions
341(24)
CONDUCT BOOKS
341(4)
Modesty
341(1)
Passivity
341(1)
Wit
341(1)
Learning
342(1)
Aging
342(1)
Dangerous Connections
342(1)
Inequality
343(1)
Love
343(1)
Amusements
344(1)
Theatre
344(1)
Dancing
345(1)
Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney]
Publication of Evelina
345(8)
Frances Burney
Extracts from the Journals and Letters
353(5)
Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney]
Dedication to The Wanderer
358(1)
REVIEWS
358(7)
From the London Review
358(1)
From the Monthly Review
359(1)
From the Westminster Magazine
359(1)
From the Critical Review
359(2)
From the Gentleman's Magazine
361(4)
Criticism
365(121)
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Miss Burney
365(1)
William Hazlitt
[The Spirit of Cockneyism]
366(1)
[On Burney's Characters]
367(2)
John Wilson Croker
[Review of The Wanderer]
369(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
[On Burney's Art]
370(1)
[On Burney's Morality]
370(2)
Virginia Woolf
[The Mother of English Fiction]
372(1)
Joyce Hemlow
[The Composition of Evelina]
372(22)
Martha G. Brown
Fanny Burney's "Feminism": Gender or Genre?
394(6)
Kenneth W. Graham
Cinderella or Bluebeard: The Double Plot of Evelina
400(11)
Kristina Straub
Evelina: Marriage as the Dangerous Die
411(20)
Gina Campbell
How to Read Like a Gentleman: Burney's Instructions to Her Critics in Evelina
431(23)
Susan Fraiman
Getting Waylaid in Evelina
454(20)
Margaret Anne Doody
Beyond Evelina: The Individual Novel and the Community of Literature
474(12)
Frances Burney: A Chronology 486(2)
Selected Bibliography 488

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