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1 "Snatching immortality for herself": Construing the image of the author in Frances Burney's Evelina |
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23 | (44) |
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25 | (2) |
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Performing impeccable femininity |
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27 | (3) |
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Strategy 1 Remaining anonymous to ensure unprejudiced reading |
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30 | (7) |
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Strategy 2 Epistolary narrative as a means of construing an innocent heroine |
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37 | (3) |
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Strategy 3 cOnstruing the heroine's innocence through diegesis and mimesis |
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40 | (4) |
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Strategy 4 Intertextual contexts as misdirection |
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44 | (2) |
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Misdirection step I: establishing the author's superior understanding and moral backbone through insightful assessments of flawed femininity |
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46 | (12) |
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47 | (3) |
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Madame Duval: disgust and fascination with feminine entrails |
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50 | (5) |
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Mrs. Selwyn: disclaiming the masculine |
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55 | (3) |
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Misdirection step 2: a comic relief |
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58 | (5) |
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Conclusions: Burney's Evelina as an illustration of eighteenth-century cultural sociability |
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63 | (4) |
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2 Seven Veils cast off?: On the negotiation of the authorial image in Burney's later novels |
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67 | (38) |
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Preface as a threshold of authorial image creation |
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69 | (3) |
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Defence of the novel - Empowering the authorial self |
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72 | (4) |
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Truth and fiction on the level of plot in The Wanderer |
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76 | (7) |
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The question of voice: technicalities of narrating a novel |
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83 | (10) |
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Bakhtin's heteroglossia and Burney's novels |
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93 | (3) |
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96 | (6) |
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Conclusion: the dance of the author in Burney's later novels |
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102 | (3) |
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3 The art of retrograde motion: Frances Burney's Memoirs of Doctor Charles Burney |
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105 | (42) |
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Becoming the author of the author of her being, or perfecting the art of retrograde motion |
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106 | (6) |
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Factual distortions of "borderline poetics"? |
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112 | (7) |
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The consummate art of crossing generic borders |
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119 | (11) |
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Dr. Burney's daughter, Dr. Johnson's heiress |
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130 | (14) |
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Conclusion: "her father's representative" |
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144 | (3) |
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4 "Her place in public estimate": An (after)word on Burney's place in the literary canon |
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147 | (36) |
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The tradition of forgetting |
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149 | (3) |
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The path of domestification |
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152 | (11) |
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Other paths temporarily out of bounds |
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152 | (11) |
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"Her place in public estimate", or "what others may write about her" |
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163 | (11) |
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The changing horizons and Burney studies |
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174 | (6) |
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Changing horizons stage 1: forgetting the novelist, assessing the diaris |
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175 | (3) |
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Changing horizons stage 2: political agendas |
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178 | (2) |
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The latest change in the horizons |
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180 | (3) |
| Conclusion |
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183 | (4) |
| Bibliography |
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