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.
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
(Horace Walpole, E. J. Clery (Contributor), W. S. Lewis (Editor); ISBN: 0199537216;
Paperback; 2009-01-15; 100% match)
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