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Author: Geoffrey M Sill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-16
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1315476711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict.
Author: Fanny Burney
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Burney
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2002-09-19
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1770482717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Broadview edition pairs two of Frances Burney’s linked comedies. They both present the character of Lady Smatter, a “femme savante” whose lineage may be traced back to Molière; they both centre on the misfortunes of the “elle” figure, the dispossessed heiress and wife who appears frequently in Burney’s fiction; and they both criticize a culture of misogyny that breeds suspicion and resentment. The Witlings, lighter and more comic, derives from late seventeenth-century conventions; The Woman-Hater, more melodramatic, both expresses and warns against the excessive sensibility of romanticism. Together, these two plays constitute a miniature history of English drama from the Restoration to the French Revolution and beyond. This edition contains a valuable selection of appendices, including: Burney’s “Epilogue to Gerilda”; letters and diary entries; contemporary writings on comedy; and Burney’s cast-list for The Woman-Hater.
Author: George Justice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-03-07
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521808569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the writing and manuscript publication of key authors from 1550 to 1800.
Author: Matthew Fellion
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0773551891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In twenty-five chapters focusing on a wide range of texts, including the Bible, slave narratives, modernist classics, comic books, and Chicana/o literature, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis chart the forces that have driven censorship in the United Kingdom and the United States for over six hundred years, from fears of civil unrest and corruptible youth to the oppression of various groups – religious and political dissidents, same-sex lovers, the working class, immigrants, women, racialized people, and those who have been incarcerated or enslaved. The authors also consider the weight of speech, and when restraints might be justified. Rich with illustrations that bring to life the personalities and the books that feature in its stories, Censored takes readers behind the scenes into the courtroom battles, legislative debates, public campaigns, and private exchanges that have shaped the course of literature. A vital reminder that the freedom of speech has always been fragile and never enjoyed equally by all, Censored offers lessons from the past to guard against threats to literature in a new political era.
Author: Austin Dobson
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biographical work presents wonderfully a memoir of Frances or Fanny Burney, later known as Madame D'Arblay, compiled by Henry Austin Dobson. Fanny Burney was an English satirical novelist, diarist, and playwright. She was best known for her most successful and famous works, Evelina (1778), Cecilia (1782), Camilla (1796). English poet, critic, and biographer, Henry Austin Dobson used several sources to create this memoir. Besides her novels and the period's literature, he used Memoirs of Dr. Burney by his daughter, Franny Burney, Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay edited by her niece, and The Early Diary of Frances Burney 1768-1778, edited by Annie Raine Ellis. Contents include: The Burney Family No. 1, St. Martin's Street The Story of "Evelina" The Successful Author "Cecilia"—and After The Queen's Dresser Half a Lifetime
Author: Kate Chisholm
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1446476316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III and the young Queen Victoria's coronation. To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian England, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds, being chased round the gardens of Kew Palace by the King. . . She was lady-in-writing to Queen Charlotte; she married an aristocratic emigre from the French Revolution and had her first and only child when she was forty-two; she was in Paris as Napoleon's armies marshalled against England, and in Brussels she heard the muffled guns, and watched the wounded being carried back from Waterloo. Kate Chisholm's delightful biography, incorporating the latest research and illustrate with unusual portraits and drawings, is lively, funny, shocking, informative and deeply moving; it paints a vivid portrait of a woman of great talent, against the changing background of England and France, a culture and an age.
Author: Anthony W. Lee
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2019-04-22
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1684480248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility. Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author: Brian Corman
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2013-01-21
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 1460402715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction and full annotation. The editor’s Introduction provides a rich historical and literary context for the plays’ composition and production. A glossary of frequently used words likely to be unfamiliar to general readers is also included.
Author: Frances Burney
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 3769
ISBN-13: 802724126X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eBook edition of "The Complete Novels of Fanny Burney" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Evelina" is the unacknowledged, but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. "Cecilia" is the tale about the trials and tribulations of a young upper class woman who must negotiate London society for the first time and who falls in love with a social superior. "Camilla" deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people: Camilla Tyrold, her sisters Lavinia and Eugenia, and their cousin, the beautiful Indiana Lynmere. Focal is the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. They have many hardships, however, caused by misunderstandings and mistakes, in the path of true love. "The Wanderer" is the historical tale with Gothic overtones set during the 1790s about a mysterious woman who attempts to support herself while hiding her identity. The novel focuses on the difficulties faced by women as they strive for economic and social independence. Frances Burney (1752-1840) was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. She is best known for her novels Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla and The Wanderer. Burney's novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirize their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she also foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and Thackeray.
