Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine StrategyUniversity Press of Kentucky - 237 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 fro. |
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Gulphs Pits and Precipices | 23 |
Marriage as the Dangerous Die | 53 |
and Other Necessary Fictions | 152 |
Male Authority and Impotence | 182 |
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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels Patricia Meyer Spacks Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text Ann Bermingham,John Brewer Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |