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Evelina

Autor Frances Burney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2004

Recomandăm această lectură celor care caută rădăcinile romanului de moravuri, pasionaților de structuri narative clasice și cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă complexitatea ascunsă a etichetei sociale din secolul al XVIII-lea. În Evelina, descoperim nu doar povestea unei tinere care își caută locul într-o lume dominată de aristocrație, ci și o satiră ascuțită a pretențiilor clasei înalte. Structura epistolară a celor trei volume oferă o intimitate rară, permițându-ne să observăm tranziția personajului de la izolarea rurală la efervescența periculoasă a Londrei și a Bristolului.

Stilul are ceva din finețea psihologică a prozei lui Jane Austen, fără să fie o imitație — Frances Burney mizează mai mult pe elemente comice de situație și pe o vulnerabilitate mai accentuată a eroinei în fața rigorilor sociale. Dacă în Cecilia, autoarea explorează greutatea unei moșteniri, în Evelina accentul cade pe procesul de învățare și pe formarea identității feminine într-o cultură eminamente masculină. Această ediție de la Penguin Books îmbogățește experiența lecturii prin includerea unor anexe esențiale: recenzii din epoca publicării și texte de epocă despre educația copiilor, care ancorează ficțiunea în realitatea istorică a vremii. Observăm aici germenii realismului social care vor defini literatura engleză ulterioară, totul fiind livrat cu un spirit ludic și o observație critică ce rămân surprinzător de proaspete.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140433470
ISBN-10: 0140433473
Pagini: 560
Ilustrații: further reading list
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul contemporan, această carte este o poartă către eleganța și capcanele societății georgiene. Veți câștiga o perspectivă autentică asupra modului în care o femeie își negocia independența și demnitatea în 1778. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege evoluția literaturii britanice, oferind un amestec savuros de umor, intrigă romantică și critică socială fină, totul sub forma unor scrisori pline de viață.


Despre autor

Frances Burney (1752–1840), cunoscută și sub numele de Fanny Burney sau Madame d'Arblay, a fost o figură centrală a peisajului literar englez, activând ca romancieră, dramaturg și diaristă. Fiică a istoricului muzical Charles Burney, ea s-a autoeducat și a început să scrie încă din copilărie. Succesul fulminant al debutului său anonim cu Evelina a propulsat-o în cercurile intelectuale de elită, fiind admirată de personalități precum Samuel Johnson. De-a lungul carierei, a documentat cu acuratețe viața la curtea regelui George al III-lea, unde a servit ca asistentă a reginei Charlotte, și a lăsat în urmă peste douăzeci de volume de jurnale și scrisori, considerate astăzi documente istorice neprețuite.


Notă biografică

Frances Burney (1752-1840) spent her youth in the midst of the London society which included Dr Johnson, Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Blue Stocking Circle, as well as members of the aristocracy. She published Evelina anonymously in 1778 and the revelation of her authorship brought her immediate fame. In 1793 she married General d'Arblay, a French refugee in England. She and her husband were interned by Napoleon and lived in France from 1802 to 1812.


Margaret Anne Doody is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Descriere scurtă

Leaving the secluded home of her guardian for the first time, beautiful Evelina Anville is captivated by her new surroundings in London's beau monde-and in particular by the handsome, chivalrous Lord Orville. But her enjoyment soon turns to mortification at the hands of her vulgar and capricious grandmother, and the rakish Sir Clement Willoughby, who torments the naive young woman with his unwanted advances. And while her aristocratic father refuses to acknowledge her legitimacy, Evelina can hold no hope of happiness with the man she loves. Published anonymously in 1778, Frances Burney's epistolary novel brought her instant fame when the secret of its authorship was revealed. With its ingenious combination of romance and satire, comedy and melodrama, Evelina is a sparkling depiction of the dangers and delights of fashionable society.

Descriere

Written in secret and copied for her publisher in disguised handwriting, Frances Burney's first novel appeared anonymously in 1778. Subtitled "The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World", it records in letters its heroine's encounters with an education at the hands of London society.

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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Recenzii

The reputation of Frances Burney (1752-1840) was largely established with her first novel, Evelina. Published anonymously in 1778, it is an epistolary account of a sheltered young woman’s entrance into society and her experience of family. Its comedy ranges from the violent practical joking reminiscent of Smollett’s fiction to witty repartee that influenced Austen.
The Broadview edition is based on the second edition of the novel (1779), which incorporates Burney’s revisions and corrections. Its appendices include contemporary reviews of Evelina as well as eighteenth-century works on the family and on comedy.

“Longtime admirers of Frances Burney’s delightful eighteenth-century comedy of manners, Evelina, will no doubt rejoice in Broadview’s impressive new edition of the work, here ably introduced and annotated by Susan Kubica Howard. Readers new to the novel have a treat in store. Evelina remains, quite simply, the most accomplished and insouciant comic novel written by an Englishwoman before Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and coruscates anew in the handsome presentation it is given here.” — Terry Castle, Stanford University
“Susan Kubica Howard’s research is impressively detailed, yet accessibly presented so that the edition will serve both seasoned scholars in the field and readers who may be encountering Evelina for the first time.” — Audrey Bilger, Claremont McKenna College

Cuprins

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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