TY  - BOOK
AU  - Straub,Kristina
TI  - Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy
SN  - 9780813149721
AV  - PR3316 .D585 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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