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...Ann Campbell This essay argues that Frances Burney in Cecilia; or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) critiques political debates and literary conventions focused on clandestine marriage. Through two plots of this novel, one economic and one focused on courtship, Burney interprets clandestine marriage...

...Sophie Coulombeau In Frances Burney’s second novel, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), the social taxonomist Mr. Gosport educates the protagonist in the ways of the bon ton by applying classificatory principles to metropolitan polite society. This article argues that Gosport’s methodology...

...Cecilia A. Feilla The College of William & Mary 2004 From “Sainted Maid” to “Wife in all her Grandeur”: Translations of Heloise, 1687–1817 Cecilia A. Feilla New York University Due in large...

..., Haywood, and Burney receive one chapter each: Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana (1724) for Defoe, Betsy Thoughtless (1751) and The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (1753) for Haywood, and Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782) for Burney. Two chapters are devoted to Richardson's four-novel...

..., Havens analyzes a series of textual emendations consisting of pages cut, significant passages crossed out, and linguistic and stylistic changes in the author's four novels: Evelina , Cecilia , Camilla, and The Wanderer . Havens's comparison of editions per novel, and across the novels, posits...

... father’s literary achievement in History of Music, with a return to her own career. Burney’s narration of her father’s role in the composition of Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress ) elides his active suppression of her stage comedy, The Witlings, her Žrst literary project after Evelina. In Mem...

.... Binhammer argues that Cecilia 's plot abides not by the linear progression of boundless gain that Adam Smith serenely charts in Wealth of Nations , but through the stochastic collision of “multiple temporal worlds that circulate, coexist, conflict, and coalesce.” This convergence of time becomes palpable...

... on the refined heroine and hero is undercut by its large cast of grotesque secondary characters, each of whom illustrates social follies. Staves deems Burney’s Cecilia (1782) “the most ambitious and brilliantly successful book of this period” (426). Although flawed by sentimentalism,Cecilia takes...

.... Introduction 7 In my own article, “ ‘A Philosophical Gossip’: Science and Sociability in Frances Burney’s Cecilia,” I draw on the žnal volume of Burney’s Early Journals and Letters in order to argue that her second novel is heavily col- ored by the discourse of Linnaean botany, with which she...

... to be the great reformer of this dissipated age! 6 Celebrated as the author of Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782), Burney is clearly the “lady” who has written “ two much admired works,” while Cambridge, a clergyman, was known for “his learned discourses.” They also frequently met at Bluestocking...

... interest in music and literature, and more largely in interdisciplinary eighteenth-century studies, he then working on St. Cecilia’s Day Odes and she on The Beggar’s Opera. Dr. Noble’s current projects involve the 1730s playwright and anthologist Elizabeth Cooper...

... in his private writings to return the favor.1 His diary entry begins, “Nov. 18. — ​Was introduced by [Samuel] Rogers to Mad. d’Arblay, the cel- ebrated authoress of Evelina and Cecilia — ​an elderly lady, with no remains of personal beauty, but with a simple and gentle manner, a pleasing expres...

... overview of Burney’s forma- tive social environment in the mid s, in that awkward gap between the publication of Cecilia ) and her time at court. During these years, it is possible to see Frances Burney not as a woman simply embedded within the Burney kinship network (the focus of this collection...

... it, especially for its library. While most of his course work was on the Renaissance, he did his dissertation under the charismatic Bill McBurney on the late seventeenth-century odes for St. Cecilia’s Day—a topic that combined his interests in poetry and music, and which also...

... (1778), and then Cecilia (1782). Indeed, she points out in her journal that unlike her predecessor, Mrs. Hagedorn, who never went out in the eve- ning because she “had no connections,” Burney has connections “such as no one, I believe, ever had before” (1:54), including her family of married...

... that she reads novels as well as poetry, when she compares herself to Miss Larolles from Burney’s Cecilia (189). And Anne Elliot, unlike, for example, Tristram Shandy, does not realize that she is in a novel. She may be learning romance as she gets older, but to be fair, she is still learning...

... Cockburn (3:404), Madame Dacier (4:4), Elizabeth I (4:72), Jane Gray (4:354), Pernette du Guillet (4:377), Cecilia Heron (4:434), Hildegurdis (4:436), Mary, Queen of Hungary (5:478), Morata (5:507), Mrs. Dudley North (5:526), Modesto Pozzo (6:78), Margaret and Mary Roper (6:93 and 102), Anne de...

... could, moreover, be oppressively hot, but it was considered impolite to remove one’s wig to mop one’s scalp in public. In Burney’s 1782 Cecilia, the her- oine’s miserly guardian, Mr. Briggs, causes “universal horrour” when “he took off his wig to wipe his head!”23 David Garrick is said to have...

... NOTES 1. The World of Hannah More (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky, 1996), p. 3. 2. “Hannah More’s Tracts for the Times: Social Fiction and Female Ideology,” in Fetter’d or Free? British Women Novelists, 1650–1815, ed. Mary Anne Schofield & Cecilia...

..., which had done so much to reclaim the virtuous working woman, increasingly sidelined her as an object of pity, who, like Mrs. Hill in Burney’s Cecilia (1782), is incapable of secur- ing an independence without the intervention of a generous, sentimental benefactress. The writings of political...