Oxford World's Classics: The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties - Brossura

Burney, Frances (Fanny)

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ISBN 10: 0192837583 ISBN 13: 9780192837585

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 2001

Riassunto

The Wanderer or Female Difficulties is the tale of a penniless émigrée from Revolutionary France trying to earn her living in England while guarding her own secrets. Combining the best elements of the Gothic and historical novels, this newly appreciated work is an extraordinary piece of Romantic fiction. Burney's tough comedy offers a satiric view of complacent middle-class insularity that echoes Godwin and Wollstonecraft's attacks on the English social structure. The problems of the new feminism and of the old anti-feminism are explored in the relationship between the heroine and her English patroness and rival, the Wollstonecraftian Elinor Joddrel, and the racism inherent within both the French and British empires is exposed when the émigrée disguises herself as a black woman. This edition is fully annotated with appendices on the French Revolution, race relations, amusements, and geography and a previously unpublished manuscript revealing the connection between The Wanderer and Camilla.

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Book by Fanny Burney

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0192837583
• ISBN 13: 9780192837585
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1004
• Redattore: Doody Margaret Anne, Mack Robert L., Sabor Peter