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1 online resource (xvi, 241 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Papers presented at a conference to celebrate Frances Burney's 250th birthday. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236). |
| 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. |
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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 ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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English literature -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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English literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Clark, Lorna J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clark, Lorna J. A Celebration of Frances Burney. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2007 9781847183200 |
| ISBN |
9781443814980 (electronic book) |
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1443814989 (electronic book) |
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1847183204 (hardcover) |
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9781847183200 (hardcover) |
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