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

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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Gender and the Stage; 2. Censored Women: The Witlings; 3. Politicized Bodies and the Body Politic: Edwy and Elgiva and Elberta; 4. The Daughter's Tragedy: Hubert De Vere and The Siege of Pevensey; 5. ""Choice"" and Evaluation: Love and Fashion; 6. Family Matters: A Busy Day and The Woman-Hater; 7. A Context and Overview: Burney and the Late-Eighteenth-Centur Stage; Conclusion: Really a Genius for the Stage; Notes; Index. 
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