Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine StrategyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2021 M11 21 - 248 páginas 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 from private to public terms, but also reveals in Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity." |
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Trivial Pursuits | |
Love and Work | |
The Receptive Reader and Other Necessary Fictions | |
Male Authority and Impotence | |
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