Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world / Frances Burney ; edited by Edward A. Bloom ; with an introduction and notes by Vivien Jones.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford world's classicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: xliv, 455 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 0192840312 (pbk.)
- Evelina
- History of a young lady's entrance into the world
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Burney, Fanny | Available | blue staining/liquid damage along edges 6/21/19 | 33111004744435 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!'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 vulnerability 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 balls. 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxix).