Frances Burney and the Arts

Author:   Francesca Saggini
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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9783030988890


Pages:   129
Publication Date:   07 June 2022
Format:   Hardback
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This collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major authors of the long English Romantic period with the arts. The encounter was not devoid of tensions and indeed often required a degree of wrangling on Burney’s part. This was a revealing and at times contentious dialogue, allowing us to reconstruct in an original and highly focused way the feminine negotiation with such key concepts of the late Enlightenment and Romanticism as virtue, reputation, creativity, originality, artistic expression, and self-construction. While there is now a flourishing body of work on Frances Burney and, more broadly, Romantic women authors, this book concentrates for the first time on the rich artistic and material context that surrounded, supported, and shaped Frances Burney’s oeuvre.

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Author:   Francesca Saggini
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9783030988890


ISBN 10:   3030988899
Pages:   129
Publication Date:   07 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. “Clio I court” or, Frances Burney and Historiography. By Mascha Hansen.- 3. Frances Burney and the Art of Dance. By Beth Kowaleski Wallace.- 4. Life and Work: Frances Burney and the Needle Arts. By Alicia Kerfoot.- 5. Frances Burney and the London Opera Scene in the Late Eighteenth Century. By Stephen A. Willier.- 6. “To distinguish us Dilettanti from the artists”: Instrumental Music in The Wanderer. By Cassandra Ulph.- 7. Burney’s Musings on the Muses. By Barbara Witucki.- 8. Stories for Miss Cecilia: Inspiration and the Muses in the Burney Family Archive. By Lorna J. Clark.

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“Francis Burney and the Arts is a scholarly and meticulous examination of the doctrinal beliefs and practices of Francis Burney, as well as other members of the Burney family. … The book is written in a narrative style and features quoted letters and correspondences. Additionally, readers will find excerpts from personal documents such as diaries and journals throughout the text. … This academic publication is a valuable asset for any university or individual library … .” (M. Anjum Khan, THE QUILL, Vol. 1 (1), June, 2024) “Ranging across a variety of topics and cultural objects ... this collection provides a welcome addition to Burney scholarship and to the material studies turn. ... On their own, each of these essays makes a fine contribution to the thriving discipline of Burney studies; taken together, they do more—asking that we rethink the category of art ... . a welcome reorientation toward a study of the arts, broadly construed, and the collective ways in which scholars might study them.” (Katarina O’Briain, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 35 (3), 2023)


“Ranging across a variety of topics and cultural objects ... this collection provides a welcome addition to Burney scholarship and to the material studies turn. ... On their own, each of these essays makes a fine contribution to the thriving discipline of Burney studies; taken together, they do more—asking that we rethink the category of art ... . a welcome reorientation toward a study of the arts, broadly construed, and the collective ways in which scholars might study them.” (Katarina O’Briain, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 35 (3), 2023)


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Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Università della Tuscia, Italy, and Senior Associate at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK. Currently, she is Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has published widely on modern and contemporary topics, including the award-winning Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theatre Arts (2012).

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