Evelina
of Frances Burney, Edward A. Bloom (Editor)
Description
Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions--as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 455 pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Publication Date July 18th 2002
- First Publication 10/28/78
- Language English
- ISBN 9780192840318
- Edition Oxford World's Classics, New Edition
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['London, England', 'Bristol, England', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)', 'Somerset, England (United Kingdom)']
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