num_pages: 490
description: 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.
language: English
title: Evelina
titlecomplete: Evelina
characters: Captain Mirvan, Mr. Macartney, Evelina Anville, M. Dubois, Sir Clement Willoughby, Mr. Lovel, Lord Orville, Maria Mirvan, Mrs. Mirvan, Rev. Villars, Madam Duval
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Romance, 18th Century, Classics, Literature, Novels, Adult, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 16981
places: Bristol, England, Bath, Somerset, England, Somerset, England, London, England
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company