Author: Fanny BurneyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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The wanderer; or, Female difficulties. By the author of Evelina
Author: Fanny BurneyThe Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties
Author: Fanny BurneyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192837585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Set in England during the period of the French Revolution, The Wanderer chronicles the ordeals of an ́emigr ́ee's escape from France and the Terror and her attempts to earn a living while guarding her own secrets. Tracing the heroine's progress through a cross-section of English working life, this novel covers various social issues--from racism, to feminism--in its critique of the English middle class.
The Wanderer: Or, Female Difficulties. by the Author of Evelina
Author: Fanny BurneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375647205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Wanderer or, Female Difficulties
Author: Fanny BurneyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105904113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
The Wanderer opens with a group of people fleeing the Terror. Among them is the protagonist, who refuses to identify herself. No one can place her socially-even her nationality and race are in doubt. As Burney scholar Margaret Doody explains, "the heroine thus arrives as a nameless Everywoman: both black and white, both Eastern and Western, both high and low, both English and French." She asks for help from the group, but because she knows no one, she is refused.
The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties
Author: Fanny BurneyThe Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties. By the Author of Evelina; Cecilia; and Camilla [i.e. Frances Burney]. The Second Edition, Etc
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Author: Fanny BurneyThe Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties. By the Author of Evelina; Cecilia; and Camilla [i.e. Frances Burney]. The Second Edition, Etc
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Author: Fanny BurneyDying to be English
Author: Kelly McGuirePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317323114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.
Masquerade and Gender
Author: Catherine A. Craft-FairchildPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271038209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele, and Fielding all insisted that masquerade allowed women to usurp the privileges of men. Female authors, however, often mistrusted these claims, perceiving that masquerade's apparent freedoms were frequently nothing more than sophisticated forms of oppression. Catherine Craft-Fairchild's work provides a useful corrective to Castle's treatment of masquerade. She argues that, in fictions by Aphra Behn, Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Frances Burney, masquerade is double-sided. It is represented in some cases as a disempowering capitulation to patriarchal strictures that posit female subordination. Often within the same text, however, masquerade is also depicted as an empowering defiance of the dominant norms for female behavior. Heroines who attempt to separate themselves from the image of womanhood they consciously construct escape victimization. In both cases, masquerade is the condition of femininity: gender in the woman's novel is constructed rather than essential. Craft-Fairchild examines the guises in which womanhood appears, analyzing the ways in which women writers both construct and deconstruct eighteenth-century cultural conceptions of femininity. She offers a careful and engaging textual analysis of both canonical and noncanonical eighteenth-century texts, thereby setting lesser-read fictions into a critical dialogue with more widely known novels. Detailed readings are informed throughout by the ideas of current feminist theorists, including Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Mary Ann Doane, and Kaja Silverman. Instead of assuming that fictions about women were based on biological fact, Craft-Fairchild stresses the opposite: the domestic novel itself constructs the domestic woman.
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