Divided Fictions Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy.

By:

Straub, Kristina, 1951- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813149721

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PR3316 .D585 1987

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Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PR3316.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn900343878

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Critical Methods and Historical Contexts; 2. Evelina: Gulphs, Pits, and Precipices; 3. Evelina: Marriage as the Dangerous Die; 4. Evelina: Trivial Pursuits; 5. Cecilia: Love and Work; 6. The Receptive Reader and Other Necessary Fictions; 7. Camilla and The Wanderer: Male Authority and Impotence; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

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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