Woman as Nobody and the Novels of Fanny Burney Neither alternative explains the gaps that occur when Burney's heroines resort to madness, sickness, or fits of hysteria to make themselves heard. Burney's growing concern with female nam
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| Title | : | Woman as Nobody and the Novels of Fanny Burney |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081301106X |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 169 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1992-01-28 |
| Genre | : |
Cutting-Gray places Burney's eighteenth-century view of Woman alongside those views of such contemporary theorists as Kristeva, Irigaray, and Arendt and discovers that Burney dismantles both the old social order and any new order that dictates resistance to male authority. Neither alternative explains the gaps that occur when Burney's heroines resort to madness, sickness, or fits of hysteria to make themselves heard. "Nobody" shifts the perspective away from revolution and becomes a source of political power in itself. Burney, considered Jane Austen's literary mother, shaped both the tradition of women novelists and the novel of manners. Cutting-Gray devotes a chapter to a postmodern reading of each of the novels. In Evelina she explores the ways in which Evelina conceals her sexual and verbal power; in Cecilia and Camilla outbursts of feeling register as hysteria and madness to a patriarchal culture. Burney's growing concern with female name
Editorial : About the AuthorJoanne Cutting-Gray teaches in the English Department at Marquette University and has published in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, New Literary History, and Philosophy and Literature.
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