Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Norton Critical Editions)

by Burney, Frances; Cooke, Stewart J (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780393971583
• ISBN10: 0393971589
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates eighteenth-centuryculture with selections from conduct books for women. Extracts fromBurney's letters and journals and five contemporary reviews are alsoincluded. "Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about thenovel. The critics include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John WilsonCroker, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, MarthaG. Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, SusanFraiman, amd Margaret Anne Doody. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Text of Evelina	1	(340)
Contexts and Contemporary Reactions	341	(24)
CONDUCT BOOKS	341	(4)
Modesty	341	(1)
Passivity	341	(1)
Wit	341	(1)
Learning	342	(1)
Aging	342	(1)
Dangerous Connections	342	(1)
Inequality	343	(1)
Love	343	(1)
Amusements	344	(1)
Theatre	344	(1)
Dancing	345	(1)
Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney]
Publication of Evelina	345	(8)
Frances Burney
Extracts from the Journals and Letters	353	(5)
Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney]
Dedication to The Wanderer	358	(1)
REVIEWS	358	(7)
From the London Review	358	(1)
From the Monthly Review	359	(1)
From the Westminster Magazine	359	(1)
From the Critical Review	359	(2)
From the Gentleman's Magazine	361	(4)
Criticism	365	(121)
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Miss Burney	365	(1)
William Hazlitt
[The Spirit of Cockneyism]	366	(1)
[On Burney's Characters]	367	(2)
John Wilson Croker
[Review of The Wanderer]	369	(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
[On Burney's Art]	370	(1)
[On Burney's Morality]	370	(2)
Virginia Woolf
[The Mother of English Fiction]	372	(1)
Joyce Hemlow
[The Composition of Evelina]	372	(22)
Martha G. Brown
Fanny Burney's "Feminism": Gender or Genre?	394	(6)
Kenneth W. Graham
Cinderella or Bluebeard: The Double Plot of Evelina	400	(11)
Kristina Straub
Evelina: Marriage as the Dangerous Die	411	(20)
Gina Campbell
How to Read Like a Gentleman: Burney's Instructions to Her Critics in Evelina	431	(23)
Susan Fraiman
Getting Waylaid in Evelina	454	(20)
Margaret Anne Doody
Beyond Evelina: The Individual Novel and the Community of Literature	474	(12)
Frances Burney: A Chronology	486	(2)
Selected Bibliography	488