Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… famous international musicians of their time – such as Lucrezia Agujari, Francesco and his daughter Jenny Barsanti or Gaspare Pacchierotti – performed for free at the Burney’s, discussing music and literature afterwards. On other days, the … Both of these novels tend to be classified as ‘courtesy 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 … 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 Eighteenth-Century English Novels (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, …
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