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Belinda: A Classic Novel of Society, Courtship, and Independence
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515427223
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Belinda is Maria Edgeworth's sharp, intelligent novel of society, courtship, reputation, and moral independence in the world of the English aristocracy and gentry. Young Belinda Portman enters fashionable society under the guidance of Lady Delacour, a brilliant, wounded, and self-dramatizing woman whose marriage, friendships, secrets, and social performance reveal the dangers beneath polished manners. Around them, Edgeworth builds a novel of wit, observation, emotional testing, and social judgment.
First published in 1801, Belinda belongs to the important early tradition of women's fiction and the novel of manners. Edgeworth examines education, marriage, female friendship, class, race, fashion, debt, reputation, and the pressure placed on women to choose wisely in a world designed to punish them for choosing badly. The novel was also controversial in its early form for its treatment of interracial marriage and colonial identity, and later editions altered some of that material, making Belinda a significant text for readers interested in how fiction, society, and publication history intersect.
Readers interested in Jane Austen, Frances Burney, early women novelists, Anglo-Irish literature, social satire, and the development of the nineteenth-century novel will find Belinda an important and rewarding work. It is both a lively society novel and a serious study of character, education, moral judgment, and the restrictions placed on women inside the polite world.
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