Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide (eds) (London: Penguin books, 2001), p. 46. Burney made this clear in her first novel Evelina (1778) – perhaps especially in vol. 1, when our heroine is thrown into London society, ill-prepared by her rural … individual involved, and her concerns about maintaining the reputation she had among her peers and potential suitors. Evelina’s anxieties are fueled by a sense of exposure among her new acquaintance – she does not know how far to trust in …
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