Barbara Darby
EAN : 978B017C19G86
The University Press of Kentucky (31/12/1997)
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The position Frances Burney (1752-1840) holds as a novelist, journalist, and letter-writer is now undisputed, thanks to reevaluations of the canon in recent years. Yet she was always intrigued by, and wrote for, the stage. Though only one of Burney's dramas was performed in her lifetime, Barbara Darby places the plays in the context of performance and feminist theory, challenging past assertions about Burney that were based entirely on her novels and journals. Darby... >Voir plus
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The interaction between gentility and the theater was a concern for Burney herself and was something that plagued the careers of many women writing for the stage in the eighteenth century.
Burney mixes her romantic couple’s sentimentality, emotional effusions, and idealism with the financial pragmatism of figures of different classes.
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