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Frances Burney’s “Evelina” - The Book, its History, and its Paratext (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Frances Burney’s “Evelina” - The Book, its History, and its Paratext (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: New Directions in Book History
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Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778,
enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its
publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and
reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book
demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of
the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its
content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly
describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners,
metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into
a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs
délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a
yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas
gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established
literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also
focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in
this novel, written by a woman author, by the heavily
male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections
discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name
and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her
authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s
prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout
almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence.
Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title
pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role
of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable
commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various
segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to
mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated
bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and
reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears
in an appendix.
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