Talk:Cecilia (Burney novel)

Dlaitinen (talk) 22:45, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I am a PhD student in literature at the University of South Florida specializing in eighteenth-century literature and the works of Frances Burney. It is my intention to improve and build upon the previous work done on this page. Dlaitinen (talk) 18:11, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Outline of Proposed Changes

•Add more information to the lead including nationality of author and brief description of plot/genre

•Add further details/contextual information to the background section

•Edit the summary section at the sentence level for grammar and clarity

•Add a section on publishing history

•Add a section on critical reception

Dlaitinen (talk) 17:04, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Bibliography

Bander, Elaine. "From Cecilia To Pride And Prejudice: 'What Becomes Of The Moral?'." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 34.1 (2013.

Bilger, Audrey. "Goblin Laughter: Violent Comedy And The Condition Of Women In Frances Burney And Jane Austen." Women's Studies 4 (1995): 323.

Campbell, Ann. "Clandestine Marriage And Frances Burney's Critique Of Matrimony In Cecilia." Eighteenth-Century Life 37.2 (2013): 85-103.

Davidson, Christina. "Conversations As Signifiers: Characters On The Margins Of Morality In The First Three Novels Of Frances Burney." Partial Answers: Journal Of Literature And The History Of Ideas 2 (2010): 277.

Doody, Margaret. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works.Rutgers, 1988.

Doody, Margaret. "Introduction." Cecilia. Oxford UP, 1992.

Ganz, Melissa J. "Clandestine Schemes: Burney's Cecilia And The Marriage Act." Eighteenth Century: Theory And Interpretation 54.1 (2013): 25-51.

Julian, Fung. "Frances Burney as Satirist." Modern Language Review 2011: 937.

Landry, Donna, and Gerald MacLean. "Familiar Violence: Gender And Social Upheaval In The Novels Of Frances Burney." Studies In English Literature, 1500-1900 3 (1998): 553.

McCrea, Brian. Frances Burney And Narrative Prior To Ideology. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013.

Parisian, Catherine M. Frances Burney's Cecilia : A Publishing History. Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2012.

Richetti, John Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge UP, 1996.

Sabor, Peter Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney. Cambridge UP, 2007.

Thaddeus, Janice Farrar. Frances Burney: A Literary Life. St Martin's Press, 2000.

Woodworth, Megan. "'If A Man Dared Act For Himself': Family Romance And Independence In Frances Burney’s Cecilia." Eighteenth Century Fiction 2 (2009): 355.

Dlaitinen (talk) 20:46, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Edit Summary for this page:

May 31-For the Cecilia article, I made a few changes to the first seciton to indicate that this is Burney's second novel and that she is an English author. I added information about why her father supressed The Witlings, a second image, links to bluestocking and Elizabeth Montagu and a section for critical reception, which needs to be written from the ground up. I also started editing the plot summary at the sentence level for the first four paragraphs. I added a detail: from "one of her guardians" to three guardians.

June 1-I added more info to the opening giving it a very brief plot overview and mention of genre. I started working on the new subheading that I added called critical reception about Burney's style and tone, a tad about publication history, the success of the work, and Shakespearean references etc.

Your revisions add to the content of the article and provide further links, such as "novel of manners," to guide readers through relevant context related to this page. Heatherafox (talk) 21:19, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

June 3-I added a subsection for "publishing history" and gave a brief overview of the novel's many successful editions. I went back and expanded the footnote references to include complete information. I did an edit of the summary section that included fixing grammatical errors such as: comma splices, commas between subject and verb, double subjects but one verb pertaining to only one of the subjects, shifts in tense, ambiguous sentences, awkward phrasing and colloquialisms such as changing a "little hurt" to "wounded." I tried to keep most of the original language. I moved my additions out of my sandbox into the article. Dlaitinen (talk) 20:32, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

June 5 I changed the title of "References" to "Literary Allusions" since that is what the content is about. I then added Burney's own allusions to Shakespeare. I then changed the title of the "Footnotes" section to "References" since that seems to be the standard practice. Dlaitinen (talk) 17:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

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