« Du corps vivant au texte inanimé » : la représentation de la mort dans Evelina de Frances Burney
Evelina sometimes reads as a comment on the contemporary debate on suicide, the “English malady.” What Frances Burney condemns above all is the tendency to beautify death, showing how the image of the beautiful dead woman that men enjoy so much reveals the stultifying effects of the passivity enforc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2013-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/537 |