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Title A celebration of Frances Burney / edited by Lorna J. Clark
Published Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 241 pages)
Contents 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
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 ..
Notes Papers presented at a conference to celebrate Frances Burney's 250th birthday
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236)
Notes English
Subject Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
English literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Clark, Lorna J
LC no. 2008378585
ISBN 9781443814980
1443814989
9786612414169
6612414162