Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
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- Nombre de pages455
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.35 kg
- Dimensions13,0 cm × 19,5 cm × 2,5 cm
- ISBN978-0-19-953693-1
- EAN9780199536931
- Date de parution01/02/2013
- CollectionOxford World's Classics
- ÉditeurOxford University Press
Résumé
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 vulnerabiliry 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 halls.
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.
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.
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 vulnerabiliry 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 halls.
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.
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.
