![]() Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p, 247. ![]() The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670–1820. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, p. ‘“Her Gift Was Compelled”: Gender and the Failure of the “Gift” in Cecilia’. ![]() ‘”Too neat for a beggar”: Charity and debt in Burney’s Cecilia’. The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction. Parenthetical references are to this edition.Ĭastle, Terry. Property, Education, and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Ĭope, Virginia H. Cecilia pt.2 By Fanny Burney Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. ![]() ![]() 1 However, given Cecilia’s psychical investment in and construction of her identity as an agent of charity, I argue that it cannot survive intact but has to mutate into an identity that is compatible with patriarchal norms. Cope argues that Cecilia’s identity is not lost in the process, that it can ‘survive the loss of its material supports’. The disempowerment of the eponymous heroine is played out literally in economic terms, because, Burney makes no bones about it, depriving the heroine of her money is tantamount to taking away her treasured agency. Frances Burney conceives of her second novel Cecilia as a kind of profit-and-loss account, pitting female jouissance against the castrating Name-of-the-Father. ![]()
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