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Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy

Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0813116333
ISBN13: 9780813116334
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Jan 22 1988
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist from private to public terms, but also reveals in Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity.

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