Oxford English Novels
2 total works
This edition of Evelina offers the definitive 1778 text together with 150 pages of documents on life in eighteenth-century England carefully selected to give students a rich sense of the novel's historical and cultural context. Fanny Burney's work is widely-studied on both courses on the novel and women's writing. As well as the documents, the volume contains an historical and critical introduction to the text, a chronology of Burney's life, an extensive bibliography and illustrations and maps.
First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. The path of true love, however, is strewn with intrigue, contretemps and misunderstanding. An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. As in Evelina, Fanny Burney weaves into her novel strands of light and dark, comic episodes and gothic shudders, and creates a pattern of social and moral dilemmas which emphasize and illuminate the gap between generations.