Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Norton Critical Editions)
, by Burney, Frances; Cooke, Stewart J (Editor)Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780393971583 | 0393971589
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/17/1998
"Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates eighteenth-centuryculture with selections from conduct books for women. Extracts fromBurney's letters and journals and five contemporary reviews are alsoincluded. "Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about thenovel. The critics include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John WilsonCroker, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, MarthaG. Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, SusanFraiman, amd Margaret Anne Doody. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.