A piercing and at times riotous portrait of eighteenth-century society, Burney's novel of manners let the readers who flocked to it witness their own reflections. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the thirdedition text of this influential novel.

Anonymously published in 1778, Evelina became an immediate best-seller, A piercing and at times riotous portrait of eighteenth-century society, Burney's novel of manners let the readers who flocked to it (among them Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson,Richard Brinslev Sheridan, and Sir Joshua Reynolds) witness their own reflections. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the thirdedition text of this influential novel, which incorporates all of Burney's changes and is the first to use the expanded subtitle "The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World."

"Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates eighteenthcentury culture with selections from the period's conduct books.Burney's etters and journal extracts provide an autobiographical link. Finally, five contemporary reviews suggest Evelina's initial reception.

"Criticism" includes fourteen essays on Burney's most popular novel, by Anna Letitia Barbauld, Wi]liam Hazlitt, John Wilson Croker, Thomas 13abington Macaulay, Vqrginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow,Martha G. Brown, Kenneth ·4 Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, Susan Fraiman, and Margaret Anne Dood.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface

The Text of Evelina

Contexts and Contemporary Reactions

 CONDUCT BOOKS

 Modesty

 Passivity

 Wit

 Learning

 Aging

 Dangerous Connections

 Inequality

 Love

 Amusements

 Theatre

 Dancing

 Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney]·Publication of Evelina

 Frances Burney·Extracts from the Journals and Letters

 Madame d'Arblay [Frances BurneyI·Dedication to The Wanderer

 REVIEWS

 From the London Review

 From the Monthly Review

 From the Westminster Magazine

 From the Critical Review

 From the Gentleman's Magazine

Criticism

 Anna Letitia Barbanld·Miss Burney

 William Hazlitt·IThe Spirit of CockneyismI[On Burney's Characters]

 John Wilson Croker·[Review of The Wanderer]

 Thomas Babington Macaulay·[On Burney's Art][On Burney's Moralib']

 Virginia Woolf·[The Mother of English Fiction]

 Joyce Hemlow·[The Composition of Evelina]

 Martha G. Brown·Fanny Bumey's "Feminism": Gender or Genre'?

 Kenneth W. Graham·Cinderella or Bluebeard: The Double Plot of Evelina

 Kristina Straub·Evelina: Marriage as the Dangerous Die

 Gina Campbell·Flow to Read Like a Gentleman: Bumey's

Instructions to Her Critics in Evelina

 Susan Fraiman·Getting Waylaid in Evelina

 Margaret Anne Doody·Beyond Evelina: The Individual Novel and the Communib' of Literature

Frances Burney: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography