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Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world / Frances Burney ; edited by Edward A. Bloom ; with an introduction and notes by Vivien Jones.

by Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Upper class -- England -- Fiction.

Young women -- England -- Fiction.

Illegitimate children -- England -- Fiction.

Debutantes -- England -- Fiction.

England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction.

9780199536931 (paperback) :

0199536937 (paperback) :

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

xliv, 455 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

"Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader."--Back cover.

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