A celebration of Frances Burney / edited by Lorna J. Clark.
2007
PR3316.A4 Z5857 2007eb
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Title
A celebration of Frances Burney / edited by Lorna J. Clark.
ISBN
9781443814980 (electronic bk.)
1443814989 (electronic bk.)
1847183204 (hard)
9781847183200 (hard)
9786612414169
6612414162
1443814989 (electronic bk.)
1847183204 (hard)
9781847183200 (hard)
9786612414169
6612414162
Imprint
Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 241 pages)
Call Number
PR3316.A4 Z5857 2007eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)847548366
Summary
On the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the writer Frances Burney (1752-1840), a window to her memory was placed in the arched recess of stained glass that graces Poets' Corner. Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney is one of the few women accorded such an honour. She joins the likes of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot who might in some ways be seen as her literary heirs. Burney's journey to recognition on the stage of the world has been a long one ...
Note
Papers presented at a conference to celebrate Frances Burney's 250th birthday.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236).
Formatted Contents Note
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; JOURNALS AND LETTERS; JOYCE HEMLOW AND THE MCGILL BURNEY PROJECT; GIVING VOICE TO NOBODY; MATTER FOR COMMENT AND OBSERVATION; FAMILY; FRANCES AND SARAH HARRIET BURNEY; ERASING THE STEPMOTHER STORY; MEN OF FEELING; NOVELS; READING FRANCES BURNEY; MONKEYS, BULLFINCHES, CATS, AND DOGS IN FRANCES BURNEY'S FICTION; PERSUASION AND POWER; COMEDY AND TRAGEDY; BURNEY'S COMIC GENIUS; RETRENCHMENT AND AUTHENTICITY IN BURNEY'S LOVE AND FASHION; MISS ELLIS AND THE ACTRESS; LIFE.
FANNY GOES DIPPING-EVELINA DOES NOTTHE TRAJECTORY OF ROMANCE; MAKING AN ENTRANCE; CONTEXT; FRANCES BURNEY AND PROFESSIONAL MEN; REAL ILLNESS, NOW?OR ONLY A PRETEXT; THE INIMITABLE MISS LAROLLES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.
FANNY GOES DIPPING-EVELINA DOES NOTTHE TRAJECTORY OF ROMANCE; MAKING AN ENTRANCE; CONTEXT; FRANCES BURNEY AND PROFESSIONAL MEN; REAL ILLNESS, NOW?OR ONLY A PRETEXT; THE INIMITABLE MISS LAROLLES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.
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Print version: Clark, Lorna J. A Celebration of Frances Burney. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2007
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