Backstage in the Novel : Frances Burney and the Theater Arts /

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"In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saggini, Francesca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Burney, Fanny, > 1752-1840
Burney, Fanny, > 1752-1840 > Criticism and interpretation.
Roman anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Arts du spectacle dans la litterature.
Theâtre dans la litterature.
Theater in literature.
Performing arts in literature.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a wide angle on the muses
  • In the beginning
  • "In the novel way, there is no danger": transmodal adaptations and transtextuality in Evelina
  • Caliban's mirror: The Witlings
  • The theater and the city: Cecilia
  • Texts, bodies, performance: staging madness in Cecilia and The wanderer.

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