TY - BOOK AU - Anna Paluchowska-Messing PY - 2020 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2191-1894 SN - 9783631821169 TI - Frances Burney and her readers. The negotiated image. DO - 10.3726/b16928 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058293 N2 - Was it possible for an eighteenth-century woman to become a celebrity and remain respectable? Could women’s commercial success in literature be reconciled with contemporary ideals of prescribed feminine domesticity? The rugged trajectory marked by the critical reception of the works by Frances Burney (1752–1840), an English novelist, diarist and playwright, reveals the dilemmas she faced at different stages of her career from a debutante to an acclaimed literary figure. Burney’s long life is set against the background of changing conventions in culture consumption and appreciation, and the book highlights the successes and failures of the techniques which the author employed in her texts for projecting a favourable image of herself as a woman and writer. LA - English ER -