Frances Burney, Dramatist : Gender, Performance, and the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage /

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The position Frances Burney (1752-1840) holds as a novelist, journalist, and letterwriter is now undisputed, thanks to reevaluations of the canon in recent years. Yet Burney was always intrigued by, and wrote for, the stage. Though only one of Burney's dramas was performed in her lifetime, Barb...

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Autor principal: Darby, Barbara, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Burney, Fanny, > 1752-1840.
Burney, Fanny, > 1752-1840 > Dramatic works.
English Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Women in the theater.
Women and literature.
Feminism and literature.
Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes au theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Women in the theater > England > History > 18th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Feminism and literature > England > History > 18th century.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The position Frances Burney (1752-1840) holds as a novelist, journalist, and letterwriter is now undisputed, thanks to reevaluations of the canon in recent years. Yet Burney was always intrigued by, and wrote for, the stage. Though only one of Burney's dramas was performed in her lifetime, Barbara Darby places the plays in the context of performance and feminist theory, challenging past assertions about Burney that were based entirely on her novels and journals. Darby maintains that in exposing the failure of such practices and institutions as courtship, marriage, family, government, and the c.
The position Frances Burney (1752-1840) holds as a novelist, journalist, and letter-writer is now undisputed, thanks to reevaluations of the canon in recent years. Yet she was always intrigued by, and wrote for, the stage. Though only one of Burney's dramas was performed in her lifetime, Barbara Darby places the plays in the context of performance and feminist theory, challenging past assertions about Burney that were based entirely on her novels and journals. Darby maintains that in exposing the failure of such practices and institutions as courtship, marriage, family, government, and the church, Burney's dramas often exceed her novels in the depth of their social commentary.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780813159317

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