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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0393971589
  • ISBN-13:
    9780393971583
  • PUB. DATE:
    January 1998
  • PUBLISHER:
    Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Evelina; Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World: Authoritative Text, Contexts & Contemporary Reactions & Criticisms / Edition 1 by Frances Burney, Stewart J. Cooke (Editor)

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Loveliest of Novelsby Anonymous

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This is an utterly delightful book, in which I would definitely recommend. If you adore Jane Austen you will fall in love with this story. It is very easy to read, despite it being written in the 1700s, and it captivates your imagination until the end.

I loved this book!by Anonymous

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Fanny Burney is the best author. I would recommend all of her books.

An Unexpected Delightby Anonymous

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I was assigned to read Evelina by a college professor and dragged my feet about reading it. An avid reader, I rarely like any assigned books half as much as the ones I'd pick up on my own, but when I finally forced myself to pick it up at the library and start I found I couldn't put it down. Literally, I liked it so much that I'd walk to and from my classes while reading. I loved the descriptions...

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Evelina; Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Product Details

  • Pub. Date: January 1998
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Sales Rank: 460,073

Synopsis

"Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates eighteenth-century culture with selections from conduct books for women. Extracts from Burney’s letters and journals and five contemporary reviews are also included.

"Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.

The critics include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John Wilson Croker, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, Martha G. Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, Susan Fraiman, amd Margaret Anne Doody.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Biography

Stewart J. Cooke is Faculty Lecturer in English at McGill University. He is associate editor of The Collected Plays of Frances Burney and co-editor of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney.