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Article: Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 1999
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Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney. By BARBARA ZONITCH. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 167 pp. 26.50 [pounds sterling].
Thanks to the work of feminist critics of the last twenty years, notably Patricia Meyer Spacks, Kristina Straub, Julia Epstein, and Margaret Anne Doody, Burney is by common consent the single most important female English novelist of the late eighteenth century, the equal at her best of the male masters of the genre. Barbara Zonitch comes in the wake of this feminist revisionism to offer what is essentially a refinement of its insights and emphases. ...