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PART ONE: EVELINA: THE COMPLETE TEXT
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background
Chronology of Burney's Life and Times
A Note on the Text
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World [First Edition, January 1778]
PART TWO: EVELINA: CULTURAL CONTEXTS
1. The Young Lady
For the Young Lady
James Fordyce, "On the Importance of the Female Sex"
Thomas Gisborne, "On the Mode of Introducing Young Women into General Society"
Thomas Gisborne, "On the Employment of Time"
By the Young Lady
Frances Burney, An Unwanted Proposal of Marriage
Frances Burney, Directions for Coughing and Sneezing before the King and Queen
2. The Fashionable World
Making Fashion
Richard Campbell, From The London Tradesman
Joseph Addison, On the Royal Exchange (The Spectator, No. 69)
Joseph Addison, The Influence of French Fashions (TheSpectator, No. 45)
Oliver Goldsmith, On London Shops (From The Citizen of the World)
Henry Fielding, People of Fashion (From The Covent-Garden Journal)
Placing Fashion
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, On the London Theatre, (From The Spectator, Nos. 240, 245, and 502)
Anonymous, From A Sketch of the Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall
Oliver Goldsmith, On a Visit to Vauxhall Gardens (From The Citizen of the World)
Tobias Smollett, On a Visit to Bath (From Humphry Clinker)
Christopher Anstey, From The New Bath Guide
3. Beyond the Fashionable World
Visitors to London
César de Saussure, From A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II
W. de Archenholtz, From A Picture of England
Carl Phillip Moritz, From Travels, Chiefly on Foot, Through Several Parts of England, in 1782
Thomas Campbell, From Dr. Campbell's Diary of a Visit to England in 1775
Seafaring Men
James Anthony Gardner, Voyages of a Seaman
Edward Boscawen, Waging War against France
Thomas Pasley, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
Olaudah Equiano, Serving with the English Navy
Selected Bibliography
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Jonni-lynn Peterson
reviewed Evelina on January 22, 2019
Evelina
The premise of a man dying of cancer but deciding, so as to spare his family heartache of a long drawn out death, to commit suicide in such a way that it would appear like a hunting accident didn't augur well. I had loved 'Snow falling on cedars' so thouight to give this a go. Am I pleased I did?
Our hero's plans do not run smoothly and along the way he meets and interreacts with a whole horde of characters. It is not simply a straightforward cliche'd ' man-learns-the-value-of-life-through-his encounters' but its probably not far off. Some of these characters are bizarre and some unrealistic; I for one cannot believe any shop assistant would be so callous as the one who makes fun of his black eye so crassly. Her lack of compassion seemed to be there just so Ben could reflect on how her lack of compassion made him feel alone. This is what Guterson seems to do a good deal. He introduces us to naive innocence, saintly kindness and ridiculous small time cruelty in such a way that few of the characters ring true but it is so as to move his plot along to another 'incident'.
Whilst talking to his daughter on the phone he tells her what has happened to him over the last few days and on a number of occasions she remarks how it all sounds unbelieveable....I couldn't have said it better myself.
Guterson also thanks a number of people at the end of the book for their help regarding veterinary practices and army history and other things; as i read the book I just felt he had taken large excerpts from books as various as ' The insides of dogs after they've been bitten a lot ' , ' what to do when operating on bitten dogs ', ' What roads to drive along from Seattle to other places and what bridges you will cross on the way' and ' the many ways to describe orchards ' and then just inserted portions every now and again through the text. Maybe 'Snow falling on Cedars ' spoilt me but I have to admit to being rather disappointed.
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