Frances Burney, Dramatist: Gender, Performance, and the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage

" 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
Published: 10/16/1997
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.30w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780813120225

About the Author

Barbara Darby received her Ph.D. from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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