ENG323H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frances Burney, Conduct Book, Ethnography
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Gregory"s a father"s legacy to his daughter : about an elderly father leaving his motherless daughters to fend for themselves, and thus leaving them a conduct book. He fails her grandfather and her mother, can he really care for evelina: epistelary novel: novel written in letter format. We have no narrative and only reports on what is happening (so can"t really know the characters" true selves) For women writers, it"s a form where they can be sly and get away with writing things they couldn"t get away with in a narrative form novel. Satire is not particularly a feminine genre. A lot of 18th century novels are about orphans people who have to: evelina thinks that she"s not much of an orphan thought when. The novel allows a novelist to incorporate a satiric dimension into her. Evelina does view her world in a sort of satiric eye.
