The Resource Backstage in the novel : Frances Burney and the theater arts, Francesca Saggini ; translated by Laura Kopp
Backstage in the novel : Frances Burney and the theater arts, Francesca Saggini ; translated by Laura Kopp
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- Summary
- "In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between drama, a long-standing tradition, and the still-emergent form of the novel. Through close semiotic analysis, intertextual comparison, and cultural contextualization, Saggini highlights the extensive metatextual discourse in Burney's novels, allowing the theater within the novels to surface. Saggini's comparative analysis addresses, among other elements, textual structures, plots, characters, narrative discourse, and reading practices. The author explores the theatrical and spectacular elements that made the eighteenth-century novel a hybrid genre infused with dramatic conventions. She analyzes such conventions in light of contemporary theories of reception and of the role of the reader that underpinned eighteenth-century cultural consumption. In doing so, Saggini contextualizes the typical reader-spectator of Burney's day, one who kept abreast of the latest publications and was able to move effortlessly between "high" (sentimental, dramatic) and "low" (grotesque, comedic) cultural forms that intersected on the stage. Backstage in the Novel aims to restore to Burney's entire literary corpus the dimensionality that characterized it originally. It is a vivid, close-up view of a writer who operated in a society saturated by theater and spectacle and who rendered that dramatic text into narrative. More than a study of Burney or an overview of eighteenth-century literature and theater, this book gives immediacy to an understanding of the broad forces informing, and channeled through, Burney's life and work."--Project Muse
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages)
- Note
- Translated from the Italian
- Contents
-
- Introduction: a wide angle on the muses
- In the beginning
- "In the novel way, there is no danger": transmodal adaptations and transtextuality in Evelina
- Caliban's mirror: The Witlings
- The theater and the city: Cecilia
- Texts, bodies, performance: staging madness in Cecilia and The wanderer
- Isbn
- 9780813932644
- Label
- Backstage in the novel : Frances Burney and the theater arts
- Title
- Backstage in the novel
- Title remainder
- Frances Burney and the theater arts
- Statement of responsibility
- Francesca Saggini ; translated by Laura Kopp
- Subject
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- 1700-1799
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Performing arts in literature
- Performing arts in literature
- Theater in literature
- Theater in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Language
-
- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
- "In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between drama, a long-standing tradition, and the still-emergent form of the novel. Through close semiotic analysis, intertextual comparison, and cultural contextualization, Saggini highlights the extensive metatextual discourse in Burney's novels, allowing the theater within the novels to surface. Saggini's comparative analysis addresses, among other elements, textual structures, plots, characters, narrative discourse, and reading practices. The author explores the theatrical and spectacular elements that made the eighteenth-century novel a hybrid genre infused with dramatic conventions. She analyzes such conventions in light of contemporary theories of reception and of the role of the reader that underpinned eighteenth-century cultural consumption. In doing so, Saggini contextualizes the typical reader-spectator of Burney's day, one who kept abreast of the latest publications and was able to move effortlessly between "high" (sentimental, dramatic) and "low" (grotesque, comedic) cultural forms that intersected on the stage. Backstage in the Novel aims to restore to Burney's entire literary corpus the dimensionality that characterized it originally. It is a vivid, close-up view of a writer who operated in a society saturated by theater and spectacle and who rendered that dramatic text into narrative. More than a study of Burney or an overview of eighteenth-century literature and theater, this book gives immediacy to an understanding of the broad forces informing, and channeled through, Burney's life and work."--Project Muse
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Saggini, Francesca
- Dewey number
- 823/.6
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR3316.A4
- LC item number
- Z7713 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Burney, Fanny
- English fiction
- Performing arts in literature
- Theater in literature
- Burney, Fanny
- Burney, Fanny
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- English fiction
- Performing arts in literature
- Theater in literature
- Label
- Backstage in the novel : Frances Burney and the theater arts, Francesca Saggini ; translated by Laura Kopp
- Note
- Translated from the Italian
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: a wide angle on the muses -- In the beginning -- "In the novel way, there is no danger": transmodal adaptations and transtextuality in Evelina -- Caliban's mirror: The Witlings -- The theater and the city: Cecilia -- Texts, bodies, performance: staging madness in Cecilia and The wanderer
- Control code
- 796999193
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813932644
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613916716
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 391671
- 22573/ctt6t9zg4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)796999193
- Label
- Backstage in the novel : Frances Burney and the theater arts, Francesca Saggini ; translated by Laura Kopp
- Note
- Translated from the Italian
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: a wide angle on the muses -- In the beginning -- "In the novel way, there is no danger": transmodal adaptations and transtextuality in Evelina -- Caliban's mirror: The Witlings -- The theater and the city: Cecilia -- Texts, bodies, performance: staging madness in Cecilia and The wanderer
- Control code
- 796999193
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813932644
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613916716
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 391671
- 22573/ctt6t9zg4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)796999193
Subject
- 1700-1799
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Performing arts in literature
- Performing arts in literature
- Theater in literature
- Theater in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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