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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Frances Burney"”.
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Frances Burney d’Arblay and Anglican Womanhood, 1752 – 1840.
… century has rescued the British novelist Frances Burney d’Arblay’s (1752 – 1840) cutting social criticism from the shadow of her near-contemporary Jane Austen. Yet such work has – with the exception of recent work on the colonial contexts of the Burney family as a whole – centred on the …
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Gambling with virtue: The moral ramifications of female gaming in the early novels of Frances Burney
… an essential part of their personal development; Frances Burney uses gaming as a fundamental element in her early novels; the trials her heroines experience during their forays into society all include the presence of gaming in some form. The proximity of gaming, as well as the social and moral …
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Models of Claim, Resistance, and Activism in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Frances Burney
… Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Francis Burney’s The Wanderer. By tracking the frequency of “claim” and its collocates through corpora, this thesis explicates each author’s distinct construction of the term and the ways in which it is used to explore the conditions of eighteenth-century …
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Family relationships and masculinity in Fanny Burney's Evelina and Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
Although Frances Burney and Sophie von La Roche wrote and published successful novels in the late eighteenth century, little work has been done to compare these authors’ oeuvres. It is conceivable that La Roche’s work had an influence on Burney’s, and this possibility is especially strong for their …
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Beginning's ends : new senses of ending and the eighteenth-century novel
… of time (diarist, playwright, and novelist Frances Burney). This dissertation serves as part of what I hope is a growing chorus of works calling for more comprehensive mapping of the early novel's narrative features.
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“Henrietta and Harriet:” Considering the Marginalized Best Friend in Burney’s <em>Cecilia</em> and Austen’s <em>Emma</em>
… said about the authorial relationship between Frances Burney and Jane Austen generally, there is a gap in scholarship discussing Austen’s <em>Emma</em> in context with the Burney’s <em>Cecilia</em>. This paper argues that there are notable threads—heiresses with absent or inadequate father …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley literalized the dialectics of certain moral philosophers. This research asserts that the novelists adopted the structure of the three-stage moral dialectic found in moral sentiment theories and …
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Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing
… works composed between 1748-1834 by (or about) Frances Burney (1778), Charlotte Charke (1755), Sarah Siddons (1834), Samuel Richardson (1748), and Samuel Jackson Pratt (1790), my dissertation offers to extend our understanding of the cultural discourses surrounding female expression by situating …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… observers of their social environment, novelists Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, and Amelia Opie were not content with stick-figure heroes and villains. Their richly drawn male characters are deeply embedded in late-Georgian controversies over men’s status, responsibilities, and behavior, …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
… for an eighteenth-century audience. I examine Burney’s Camilla and Eugenia’s disability as well as Dacre’s Zofloya and Victoria’s figurative hermaphroditism in terms of eighteenth-century views of deformity and physiognomy to argue that both Eugenia’s and Victoria’s deformities—Eugenia’s …