"Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology works between Burney's Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney's four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camill…
"Ideology" today holds a place in literary criticism much like "ironic tension" in the era of New Criticism and "patriarchal power" in the great surge of Feminist criticism beginning in the 1970s. By showing how its subject eludes the -isms through which she might be read, Franc…
"Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology works between Burney's Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney's four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camill…
