Frances Burney: The Life in the Works by Doody, Margaret Anne

Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813513553)

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Frances Burney: The Life in the Works by Doody, Margaret Anne

Frances Burney: The Life in the Works

$37.95
Frances Burney: The Life in the Works by Doody, Margaret Anne

Frances Burney: The Life in the Works

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only Burney's published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published. Doody also draws upon a mine of letters and diaries for detailed and sometimes surprising biographical information. Burney's feelings and emotions forcefully emerge in her sophisticated and complex late novels, Camilla and The Wanderer. Her novels all relate to personal experience; as an artist she is attracted to the violent, the grotesque, and the macabre. She is a powerful comic writer, but her comedy is far from reflecting a shallow cheerfulness. Bringing a novelist's perspective to her material, in this 1989 book Doody shows an appreciation of the many dimensions of a predecessor's writings and she tells her story with force and conviction.

Author: Margaret Anne Doody
ISBN-10: 0813513553
ISBN-13: 9780813513553
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1988
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 8.63h x 6.24w x 1.16d
By Margaret Anne Doody
By Margaret Anne Doody
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MARGARET ANNE DOODY is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of two novels, as well as A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson, and the prize-winning Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered.

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