Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine StrategyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014 M07 11 - 248 páginas Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist from private to public terms, but also reveals in Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity." |
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... Madame Duval, Evelina's grandmother, is dangerously stupid, Mrs. Beaumont benignly stupid, and even the dignified Lady Howard crumbles, with as much grace as she can, before the will 2. Evelina: Gulphs, Pits, and Precipices.
... Madame Duval, Evelina's grandmother, in order to “support her dignity.” The grown-up woman who “misbehaves” offers, however, far more complex possibilities. The self-defeating strategies of Mrs. Selwyn, the novel's mas– culinized ...
... Madame Duval possesses a kind of renegade female strength, gained through ignoring the social formations that define mature female power in relationship to masculine authority. The novel pits Duval's intractibility against the ...
... Duval's blind self-assertion: “What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? Her character, and the violence of her disposition, intimidate me from making the attempt ...
... Duval follows the rules of Parisian fashion, she breaks so many basic guidelines for female politeness that it seems ... Madame Duval, “but I know in Paris no woman need n't be at such a trouble as that, to be taken very genteel notice ...
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Marriage as the Dangerous Die | 53 |
Trivial Pursuits | 78 |
Love and Work | 109 |
6 The Receptive Reader and Other Necessary Fictions | 152 |
Male Authority and Impotence | 182 |
Notes | 221 |
Index | 233 |