Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Murray Brown, committee chair; Malinda Snow, Paul Schmidt, committee members. Electronic text (75 p.). Description based on contents viewed Apr. 20, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-75).

ABSTRACT In the discussion of my research project, the concept of femininity of the eighteenth century in Fanny Burney¡¦s Evelina is the principle subject, and the thesis is divided into five parts to discuss. I elaborate and introduce the basic concept of my thesis¡Xfemininity in the eighteenth century¡Xin my introduction. Then, in the first chapter, I discuss the subversion of the epistolary form. Through exploring the history of the epistolary fiction, I explain how the epistolary novel became a genre and why it is regarded as the feminine style suitable to the female writers and how it works in the novel. As shaping power in Evelina, what results does the epistolarity bring to the structure or the content of the novel? How does the epistolarity make the novel different from other common ones? And as a feminine genre, how would it help Burney go beyond the patriarchal order of language? These are the questions I explore here. In the second chapter, I analyze how Fanny Burney overturn the eighteenth-century patriarchal value system and criticize the marriage market through the incidents that the innocent, feminine heroine encounters in the fashionable world. I also specify how femininity is used as a disguised power by the author to subvert the society. In my third chapter, I elaborate the feminization of male characters and discuss the masculine women as well in this novel. I discuss how the author creates these feminized men and masculine women, and how she implies that if people of both sexes adopt the merits of their opposite sex appropriately, they may become better human beings. Last, in my conclusion, I make a concise summary for my whole thesis and explain why I think it a good work with profundity.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-338).

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Münster, Allemagne--Universität Münster, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 339-354. Index.

To provide a current survey of the scholarship and an annotated bibliography on Fanny Burney from 1920-1970 for scholars and students is the purpose of this paper.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves: [42]-43)

Frances Burney’s novel Cecilia, travels through England geographically and through numerous modes of transport. It explores the concept of national identity in an England that is still determining its own. William Hogarth’s rules for determining the beauty of the Serpentine s in The Analysis of Beauty offer a model for the type of natural and beautiful travel around England that Burney attempts to construct, determining the most beautiful moral values of such an identity. Both the social implications and the modes of travel consider how this sense of beauty emerges throughout the novel, as Cecilia’s own subjective growth travels in tandem with her physical motion. Burney offers a model for travel that challenges the masculine Grand Tour, a type of travel that worked to divide that nation. Cecilia’s tour, in contrast, through England serves to promote social inclusivity and cohesion. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / The thesis considers the importance of William Hogarth’s principles in The Analysis of Beauty to Frances Burney’s novel Cecilia, through the perspective of travel.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Aug. 12, 2008). PDF text: ii, 124 p. : ill. ; 2 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3297816. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.