Evelina

Name: Evelina
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ISBN: 9780312097295

ISBN-10: 0312097298

ISBN-13: 9780312097295

Edition: 1997

Authors: Kristina Straub, Fanny Burney, Frances Burney

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This edition reprints the text of Burney's classic novel together with a broad selection of documents on life in eighteenth-century England that have been carefully chosen to put the work in its historical and cultural context. Special attention is given to eighteenth-century conduct literature, including Burney's own reactions to her society's codes of behavior for the young lady. In addition, the documents include first hand descriptions of fashionable English society at the end of the eighteenth century from observers both inside and ouside of its folds as well as materials on the often violent underside of the British trade and military expansion that helped construct the fashionable…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 3/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 693
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



About the Series


About This Volume


List of Illustrations



Evelina: The Complete Text


Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background


Chronology of Burney's Life and Times


A Note on the Text


Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World [First Edition, January 1778]



Evelina: Cultural Contexts



The Young Lady


For the Young Lady


"On the Importance of the Female Sex"



"On the Mode of Introducing Young Women into General Society"



"On the Employment of Time"



By the Young Lady


An Unwanted Proposal of Marriage



Directions for Coughing and Sneezing before the King and Queen




The Fashionable World


Making Fashion


From The London Tradesman



On the Royal Exchange (The Spectator, No. 69)



The Influence of French Fashions (The Spectator, No. 45)



On London Shops (From The Citizen of the World)



People of Fashion (From The Covent-Garden Journal)



Placing Fashion


On the London Theatre, (From The Spectator, Nos. 240, 245, and 502)



From A Sketch of the Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall



On a Visit to Vauxhall Gardens (From The Citizen of the World)



On a Visit to Bath (From Humphry Clinker)



From The New Bath Guide




Beyond the Fashionable World


Visitors to London


From A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II