Criticism, September 22nd, 1995
An analysis of Frances Burney's 'Evelina' looks into the 18th-century middle class attitude towards the arts. The novel presents three functions of art: for moral instruction, enlightenment and for pleasure. Of the three, Burney looks at the third as with a satirical eye, for art consumed for pleasure obliterates the first and second functions. Burney also presents literature as the art form that fulfills the first and second function best. In an early scene from Volume III of Frances Burney's Evelina (1778), Mrs. Selwyn, the experienced, independent "lady of large fortune" who acts as Evelin...
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