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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... conventionally accepted means to female power and self-assertion—but the gaps in this resolution suggest Burney's refusal to gloss over the contradictory messages of eighteenth-century attitudes toward the value of women's lives. The ...
... conventionally narrow. Writers who wish to improve women's education (and there are many) commonly hedge their suggestions for broadening women's minds with counter-endorsements for keeping their social and domestic behavior within ...
... conventional experience as a young woman was shaken, however, by her encounter with a real audience after the ... conventionally perceived female maturity, but after Evelina, Burney's fiction focuses more and more directly on the psychic ...
... conventional period of youth and sexual attractiveness. The conflict between these two ideologies leaves traces of strain in the novel, a tension that is itself ideological: the contradictions between the novel's ideologies are ...
... conventional moral judgment: Evelina's criticism of Selwyn points out, albeit negatively, the possibility for real power and value—if she were to act in a female context, and hence be judged on grounds of her value to other women ...
Contenido
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23 | |
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 |