Full Description
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.
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.
