Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Oxford World's Classics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Evelina: Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Oxford World's Classics) Book

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.Read More

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  • 0192840312
  • 9780192840318
  • Frances Burney
  • 18 April 2002
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 512
  • New edition
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