Overview
" The position Frances Burney (1752-1840) holds as a novelist, journalist, and letterwriter is now undisputed, thanks to reevaluations of the canon in recent years. Yet Burney was always intrigued by, and wrote for, the stage. Though only of the Burney's dramas was performed in her lifetime, Barbara Darby places the plays in the context of performance and feminist theory, challenging past assertions about Burney that were based entirely on her novels and journals. Darby maintains that in exposin
- | Author: Barbara Darby
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Oct 16, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0813120225
- | ISBN-13: 9780813120225
