This volume is the first of six that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from 17 July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, until 7 July 1791, when she resigned her position because of ill health. Burney's later journals have been edited as The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay), 1791-1840 (12 vols., 1972-84). Her earlier journals have been edited as The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (4 vols. to date, 1988- ). The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney continues the modern editing of Burney's surviving journals and letters, from 1768 until her death in 1840. The only previous edition of the Court journals and letters is the Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, edited by Burney's niece Charlotte Barrett and published by Henry Colburn in seven volumes, 1842-46. Barrett's edition, however, is heavily abridged. For the Court years, it excludes about half of the extant material, which will be printed in the present volumes for the first time. In addition, Barrett made no attempt to recover the thousands of lines obliterated by Burney in the Court journals and letters, and indeed added many further deletions of her own. Barrett's edition was subsequently revised by Austin Dobson in a six-volume edition, 1904-05, containing new annotations and illustrations, but no alterations to the text. The present edition includes every extant letter that Burney wrote during her five years at Court, as well as all of her copious journals. The elderly Madame d'Arblay attempted to edit her own journals and letters, making numerous changes that would, she believed, make them fitter for publication. This edition aims to restore the manuscripts, as far as possible, to their original state. It recovers the words, lines, and entire passages that Madame d'Arblay strove to conceal and it contains a comprehensive commentary on the text.

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume I: 1786 (Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney 1786 - 1791)

Literature & Fiction

Sabor, Peter

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

<p>Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. As the best selling novel of its time, it provoked a swarm of responses: panegyrics and critiques, parodies and burlesques, piracies and sequels, comedies and operas. The controversy it inspired has become a standard point of reference in studies of the rise of the novel, the history of the book and the emergence of consumer culture. In the first book-length study of the Pamela controversy since 1960, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor offer an original definitive account of the novel's enormous cultural impact.</p>

'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Keymer, Thomas

Cambridge University Press

<p>" The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry's ""corrections"" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero's search for a true friend, the novel depicts the derision with which almost everyone treats his sentimental attitudes to human nature. Acclaimed as an accurate portrait of mid-eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of David Simple sets forth some provocative feminist ideas. Also included is Fielding's much darker sequel, Volume the Last (1753).</p>

The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last: Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster, in the Search ... Friend (Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women)

Fielding, Sarah

United States

Univ Pr of Kentucky

Horace Walpole: A Reference Guide (Reference Publication in Literature)

Reference

G.K. Hall

This volume documents the literary controversy and debate over Samuel Richardson's novel, "Pamela", published in 1741. It brings together and reprints key sources within the debate, including artists such as Francis Hayman, Hubert Gravelot, Joseph Highmore and Philip Mercer.

The Pamela Controversy Vol 1: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1740-1750

Mullan, John

Keymer, Tom

History & Criticism

Routledge

The Pamela Controversy Vol 2: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1740-1750

The Pamela Controversy Vol 3: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1740-1750

The Pamela Controversy Vol 4: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1740-1750

The Pamela Controversy Vol 5: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1740-1750

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