TY - BOOK ID - 78437759 TI - Divided Fictions PY - 1987 SN - 081314972X 9780813149721 9780813116334 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Feminism and literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Literature KW - Women authors KW - Burney, Fanny, KW - Arblay, KW - D'Arblay, KW - Burneĭ, KW - Bi︠u︡rneĭ, KW - Burney, Frances, KW - D'Arblay, Fanny, KW - D'Arblay, Frances Burney, KW - Arblay, Frances Burney d', KW - Author of Evelina, KW - Evelina, Author of, KW - Author of Evelina and Cecilia, KW - Evelina and Cecilia, Author of, KW - Author of Camilla, KW - Camilla, Author of, KW - Wood, KW - Burney, Frances Anne, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Literature and feminism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78437759 AB - Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist fro ER -