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The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties

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Oxford University Press, 2001 - Political Science - 957 pages
The Wanderer or Female Difficulties is the tale of a penniless emigree from Revolutionary France trying to earn her living in England while guarding her own secrets. Combining the best elements of the Gothic and historical novels, this newly appreciated work is an extraordinary piece of Romantic fiction. Burney's tough comedy offers a satiric view of complacent middle-class insularity that echoes Godwin and Wollstonecraft's attacks on the English social structure. The problems of the newfeminism and of the old anti-feminism are explored in the relationship between the heroine and her English patroness and rival, the Wollstonecraftian Elinor Joddrel, and the racism inherent within both the French and British empires is exposed when the emigree disguises herself as a black woman. This edition is fully annotated with appendices on the French Revolution, race relations, amusements, and geography and a previously unpublished manuscript revealing the connection between The Wanderer and Camilla.
  

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User Review  - Kelsey - Goodreads

The Wanderer was Fanny Burney's last novel, and, in my opinion, her magnum opus. It was published in 1814, years after her third novel, Camilla (1796). She had started it soon after Camilla, but it ... Read full review

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User Review  - Jennifer - Goodreads

I had to stop listening to this one on audio because the adventures of the heroine were so painfully drawn out--I wanted to see the resolution, but I read it so I could get there more quickly ... Read full review

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Contents

Volume I
11
Volume II
195
Volume HI
383
Volume IV
563
Volume V
711
The French Revolution in The Wanderer
875
Burney and Race Relations
884
Finance
893
The Pravokd Husband
901
Copyright

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Literary Encyclopedia: The Wanderer, or, Female Difficulties
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JSTOR: The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties
The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties. Christine Salmon. The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 174, 269-270. May, 1993. ...
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Burney, Frances: Biography and Much More from Answers.com
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Helen Thompson - How The Wanderer Works: Reading Burney and ...
Frances Burney's The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties was published in March 1814, having been "planned and begun," Burney writes, "before the end of the ...
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It was published as The Wanderer: or Female Difficulties, at the end of March 1814. The Wanderer was not as successful as Fanny's previous novels. ...
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Cardiff Corvey Articles, X.3: ts WAGNER. Nostalgia for Home or ...
The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties (1814), Frances Burney’s last novel, opens with the flight of a nameless heroine in search of her ‘loved, long lost, ...
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Érudit | RON n40 2005 : Bagchi : “Instruction a Torment”? Jane ...
The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties. Ed. Margaret Anne Doody, Robert Mack, and Peter Sabor. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. Butler, Marilyn. ...
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XI The Eighteenth Century
Bildungsroman: An Interpretation of The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties is a. dutiful, thorough survey of Burney’s last novel, paying close attention to ...
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About the author (2001)

Edited by Margaret Anne Doody, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Robert L. Mack, Lecturer at Princeton University , and Peter Sabor, Professor of English at Queen's University, Ontario. With an Introduction by Margaret Anne Doody

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