Evelina（伊芙琳娜）

The text is that of the third edition text of this influential novel, which incorporates all of Burney’s changes.
"Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates eighteenth-century culture with selections from conduct books for women. Extracts from Burney’s letters and journals and five contemporary reviews are also included.
"Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.The critics include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John Wilson Croker, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, Martha G. Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, Susan Fraiman, amd Margaret Anne Doody.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

About the Series: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations-from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory-as well as a bibliography and, in most cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.

Stewart J. Cooke is Faculty Lecturer in English at McGill University. He is associate editor of The Collected Plays of Frances Burney and co-editor of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney.

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 Burney], 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 Barbauld, Miss Burney
William Hazlitt, [The Spirit of Cockneyism], [On Burney’s Characters]
John Wilson Crocker, [Review of The Wanderer]
Thomas Babington Macaulay, [On Burney’s Art], [On Burney’s Morality]
Virginia Woolf, [The Mother of English Fiction]
Joyce Hemlow, [The Composition of Evelina]
Martha G. Brown, Fanny Burney’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, How to Read Like a Gentleman: Burney’s Instructions to Her Critics in Evelina
Susan Fraiman, Getting Waylaid in Evelina
Margaret Anne Doody, Beyond Evelina: The Individual Novel and the Community of Literature
Frances Burney: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography