An edition of Belinda (1802)

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An edition of Belinda (1802)

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Maria Edgeworth won the admiration of her contemporaries Jane Austen and Walter Scott as well as later writers such as Thackeray and Turgenev. In Belinda (1801) she tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking. Braving the perils of the marriage market, Belinda learns to think for herself as the examples of her friends prove singularly unreliable.

Edgeworth's varied cast includes the bewitching aristocrat, Lady Delacour, whose dreadful secret puts her in the power of her volatile servant; the dashing Creole gentleman, Mr. Vincent, who almost succeeds in winning Belinda's hand if not her heart; the eccentric Clarence Hervey, whose attempts to create an ideal wife backfire; and the outrageous Harriet Freke, whose antics as social outlaw land her in a mantrap.

This lively comedy challenges the conventions of courtship, examines questions of female independence, and exposes the limits of domesticity. The text used in this edition (1802) also confronts the difficult and fascinating issues of racism and mixed marriage, which Edgeworth toned down in later editions.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
500

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Cover of: Belinda
Belinda
2008, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Belinda
Belinda
1994, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Belinda
Belinda
1986, Pandora
in English
Cover of: Belinda.
Belinda.
1896, Macmillen and co., limited, The Macmillan company
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford world's classics
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.7
Library of Congress
PR4644 .B4 2008,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxvii, 500 p. ;
Number of pages
500

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23230578M
Internet Archive
belinda0000edge_r5s0
ISBN 13
9780199554683
LCCN
2009290868
OCLC/WorldCat
298511146
Library Thing
57675
Goodreads
6403021

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