Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Burney, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192839098 ISBN 13: 9780192839091

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis.
Controversial in its time, this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century concerns.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This novel is an unusual and disturbing love-story. In playing on the issue of the heroine's name, the novel illustrates the high cost of a patriarchal system. Burney exhibits her powers as a comic writer and a satirist in depicting Cecilia's dismaying entry into the gilded fashionable world. This edition presents 'Cecilia' as it first appeared in 1782, indicating changes Burney made to later editions.

About the Author:

Peter Sabor is Professor of English at Queen's University, Ontario.

Margaret Anne Doody is Professor of English at Princeton.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192839098
• ISBN 13: 9780192839091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1056
• Editor: Sabor Peter, Doody Margaret Anne