Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… novels’ (Joyce Hemlow) or ‘novels of manners’ (Patricia Meyer Spacks) to indicate their concern with etiquette and the language of politeness. 9 The genre emerged during the mid-eighteenth century and is often associated with an effort of … Keeper of the Robes from 1786-1791. 9 . Joyce Hemlow, ‘Fanny Burney and the Courtesy Books’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (vol. 65, 1950), p. 732-61; Patricia Meyer Spacks, Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in … Enlightenment had not addressed at all. Unlike Burney’s other works, this one was a failure, on the one hand because her language was by now old-fashioned, but on the other it is likely that readers had expected a novel about the troubles of …
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