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Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World de Frances Burney

Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Autor Frances Burney Introducere de Vivien Jones Editat de Edward A. Bloom
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2008
'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!'Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville.Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199536931
ISBN-10: 0199536937
Pagini: 512
Ilustrații: 3 black and white frontispieces
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Reissued
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Fanny Burney's first novel Evelina was the chick-lit novel of 1778 - all about a young girl's adventures in London, and one of the best of its kind ever written...the Oxford World's Classics edition has a knowledgeable preface by Edward A. Bloom

Notă biografică

Frances 'Fanny' Burney (1752-1840) was one of the leading cultural figures of eighteenth-century London. Her enormously successful novel Evelina, written in her mid-twenties, creates a magical picture of the particularly clever, vigorous and leisured society at whose heart she stood. First publishing anonymously, her own father did not know that she was the writer of Evelina until its successful reception encouraged her to reveal her secret. One of the great letter-writers and conversationalists of the period, Burney was also the author of the novels Cecilia and Camilla, and was a major influence on Jane Austen.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Good-looking, kind-hearted Evelina Anville has grown up in rural obscurity as the ward of a country parson. At the age of seventeen, she begins her progress from provincial life to fashionable London a transition that's complicated by vulgar relatives and her own naivete. Evelina's shrewd intelligence, however, perceives the hypocrisy behind the refined facades as she learns to balance the honesty and simplicity of her upbringing with the sophisticated etiquette of high society.
Written in the form of letters, this 1778 novel offers an intimate look at coming-of-age among England's eighteenth-century upper crust. Evelina's comic misadventures provide a subtle commentary on some of the problems faced by her contemporaries, from women's limited roles to class snobbery and prejudice. Fanny Burney's witty approach to manners and mores was a significant influence on Jane Austen, and her deft combination of satire, sentimentality, and farce provides sparkling entertainment.
Dover (2015) republication of the edition published by Thomas Lowndes, London, 1778.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frances Burney: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Evelina
Introduction to Appendices Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
  1. London Review (February 1778)
  2. Monthly Review (April 1778)
  3. Westminster Magazine (June 1778)
  4. Gentleman’s Magazine (September
  5. Critical Review (September 1778)
Appendix B: Works on Family
  1. George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, The Lady’s New-Year’s-Gift
  2. William Fleetwood, The Relative Duties of Parentsand Children, Husbands and Wives. Masters andServants
  3. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, “Correspondencewith her Granddaughter, Diana, Duchess of Bedford,1732-35”
  4. Samuel Richardson, Letters Written To and For ParticularFriends, on the Most Important Occasions
  5. [John Hill], On the Management and Education ofChildren
  6. Samuel Richardson, A Collection of the Moral andInstructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions,Contained in the Histories of PAMELA, CLARISSA, and SIRCHARLES GRANDISON
  7. James Nelson, An Essay on the Government of Children
  8. Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator
  9. Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother’s Adviceto Her Absent Daughters
  10. “Portia” [pseud.], The Polite Lady
  11. Hester Mulso Chapone, Letters on the Improvement ofthe Mind
  12. Clara Reeve, Plans of Education
  13. Mrs. Bonhote, The Parental Monitor
  14. Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of theFemale Sex
  15. Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education
  16. Francis Burney D’Arblay, Memoirs of Doctor Burney
Appendix C: Works on Comedy
  1. Anon., Pasquil’s Jests, Mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments
  2. Joseph Addison, The Spectator
  3. Anon., Scoggin’s Jests
  4. [John Mottley], Joe Miller’s Jest Book
  5. [Corbyn Morris], An Essay Towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule
  6. Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator
  7. Jane Collier, An Essay on the Art of IngeniouslyTormenting
  8. Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide
  9. [James Quin], Quin’s Jests
  10. Anon., An Essay on Laughter
  11. William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers
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