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Evelina ; or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world
Title:
Evelina ; or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world
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Summary:
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.
Uniform Title:
Evelina
Year Published:
1982,

1968
Physical Description:
xl, 421 p. ; 19 cm.
Note:
Originally published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1968. (Oxford English novels)
ISBN:
9780192815965
Publisher:
Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982, c1968.
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