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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Hardcover with attractive dustjacket. Some pencil underlining and occasional pencil notes. The representation of female friendship involves crucial questions about female identity and solidarity, and thus is of special significance in women's writing.
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Fine as. Fine as new in crisp blue hardcover with gilt lettering. This edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings (but which was never performed for fear of scandal); and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict. By placing the two works= together, the book enables the reader to observe both the genesis and fruition of a literary idea. The introduction examines Burney's debt to Moliere and the English tradition, the themes of misogyny and misanthropy, and Burney's claim to a place in the literary canon beyond her status as a novelist...