"The prettiest little actress" : performance theory and Frances Burney's Evelina
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Johanna J. Stevens (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
- Advisor
- Katherine Montwieler
Abstract: Due to the limited mobility of the young middle-class woman in the eighteenth century,
her identity was mainly the construction of the male who wielded control over her body. That
control within Evelina takes the form of financial support, social standing, and matrimonial
appropriateness and availability. This thesis is a close examination of the varying ways in which
the male figures of the novel exercise the power of this control over Evelina. This study thus
concludes due to Evelina’s compulsory performances to the expectation of the male power figure
that female identity within the eighteenth-century novel is the construction of the male.
"The prettiest little actress" : performance theory and Frances Burney's Evelina
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Burney Fanny 1752-1840. Evelina--Criticism and interpretation
- Subjects
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840. Evelina -- Criticism and interpretation