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Abstract / Description of output
This article maps Frances Burney’s life and works from the vantage point of material studies, considering the houses the author lived, sojourned, and worked in. The tension between the contending discourses of “public” house and “private” house—the house as a space for entertainment and a cultural hub used to promote visibility and augment cultural capital, as opposed to the “private” house as the locus of intimacy and family life—is exemplified by the juxtaposition between the houses Frances Burney lived in as her father’s daughter (in particular the famous house at 35 St. Martin’s Street, London) and the idyllic Surrey dwellings Burney moved into with her husband, Alexandre d’Arblay, after 1793. This article will consider the symbolic, often mythopoetic value associated with Burney’s houses as artificial, cultural mythoi and her poetics of indirect, oblique association to accrue cultural and social capital.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 223-242 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | European Romantic Review |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 29 Mar 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
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Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences
Saggini, F. & Saggini, F.
7/01/21 → 18/08/23
Project: Research
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Housing Romanticism
Casaliggi, C. (Guest ed.), Saggini, F. (Guest ed.) & Van Woudenberg, M. (Guest ed.), 29 Mar 2023, In: European Romantic Review. 34, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Opening the gatehouse: On and around housing romanticism
Casaliggi, C., Saggini, F. & van Woudenberg, M., 2023, In: European Romantic Review. 34, 2, p. 125-131 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Press/Media
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Burney Society Summer Newsletter 2023
Fran Saggini
11/06/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press Release