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The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney

By: Stewart Cooke,Charles Burney

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The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney

By: Stewart Cooke,Charles Burney

This volume of letters by Charles Burney, the first to be published since 1991, runs from 1794 to 10 January 1800, beginning with his recovery from a debilitating attack of rheumatism, continuing with the death of his wife in 1796, and ending with the shocking death of his daughter Susanna. Certain leitmotifs, typical of Burney's concerns, stand out throughout the volume: his trepidation over the war with France and its effect on domestic politics, his exhausting social life, his travels, and his publication of the memoirs of the poet and lyricist Metastasio. A staunch monarchist and a self-confessed 'allarmist', Burney is haunted 'day and night' by the French Revolution and the threat that Republican France poses to 'religion, morals, liberty, property, & life'. He frets frequently over those he considers to be domestic Jacobins, a word he uses forty-seven times in the course of the volume to describe anyone whose politics differ from his own conservative values. Although Burney turns sixty-eight in April 1794, in this volume he barely slows down his habitual hectic pace of teaching and publishing. In the summer of 1795, he publishes his final book, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Pietro Metastasio, despite a hectic social life that sees him hobnobbing with the elite in society and politics and a love of travel that takes him to the homes of friends in Hampshire and Cheshire and into his past on a nostalgic visit to Shrewsbury, his childhood home.

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Oxford University Press

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0198739842

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9780198739845

The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney

By: Stewart Cooke,Charles Burney

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The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney

By: Fanny Burney

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The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney

By: Fanny Burney

Presents material not included in either The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney (covering 1768-1781) or The court journals and letters of Frances Burney (covering 1786-1791), written at the height of her fame as a novelist.

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533

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199658110

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9780199658114

Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

By: Fanny Burney

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

By: Fanny Burney

Stewart J. Cooke teaches English at Dawson College --Book Jacket.

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403

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773505385

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9780773505384

The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces

By: Charles Burney

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The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces

By: Charles Burney

This 1775 second edition traces one of two journeys undertaken as research for Burney's General History of Music.

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363

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Cambridge University Press

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1108075517

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9781108075510

The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney

By: Sarah Harriet Burney

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The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney

By: Sarah Harriet Burney

This scholarly edition presents for the first time all of the known surviving letters of British novelist Sarah Harriet Burney (1772-1884). The overwhelming majority of these letters--more than ninety percent--have never before been published. Burney's accomplishments, says Lorna J. Clark, have been unjustly overlooked. She published five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, all of which met with reasonable success, including Traits of Nature (1812), which sold out within three months. These letters position Burney among her fellow women writers and shed light on her relations with her publisher and her ambivalence toward her own work and her readership. Her lively observation of the literary scene evinces the range and scope of her reading, as well as her awareness of literary trends and developments. Burney was, for example, remarkably prescient in recognizing, and praising from the first, the talent of Jane Austen, and met several of the authors of her day. A challenging new perspective on family matters also emerges in the letters. The youngest child of the second marriage of Charles Burney, and the only daughter to remain unmarried, Sarah Harriet had the unenviable task of caring for her father in his later years. Her letters reveal a darker side of Dr. Burney, and also help to round out our image of a more favored daughter, Sarah Harriet's half-sister (and fellow novelist), Frances Burney. As literature, Clark observes, Burney's letters are, arguably, her best work. Thoroughly versed in the epistolary arts, she sought always to amuse and entertain her correspondents. Burney ultimately emerges as a quiet but heroic single woman, relegated to the margins of society where she struggled for independence and self-respect. Displaying literary qualities and a lively sense of humor, the letters provide a fascinating insight into the literary, political, and social life of the day.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820317462

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9780820317465

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The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney

The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney

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The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney

The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces

The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces

The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney

The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney

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