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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... implicit in cultural ideology, contradictions that tend to leave disturbing rifts in the fabric of words. Recent, theroretically sophisticated work on narrative fiction suggests that carefully reading these textual disruptions—instead ...
... implicit in female identity as it is created and creates itself in patriarchal culture. Burney's desire to write and to see the product in print, to hear her work praised by the London literary circle of Johnson and Thrale—in short, to ...
... implicit in these means. While this kind of doublethink on one hand simply perpetuates the cultural double bind of women's oppression, the strategy of feminine duplicity that Burney employs also serves to empower her—at some cost—in a ...
... implicit in wo– men's socially sanctioned means to personal power. I offer here a sort of coda on these two novels rather than anything like a close or complete reading of them, but my decision to focus on Burney's earlier fiction is by ...
... implicit in many milder estimations of women's use of time. Writers about female education, and hence, about the skills and projects appropriate to the feminine life and character, often echo Swift's image of woman as dirt tricked out ...
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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 |