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The Legal Imagination —gives the best parts of When Words Lose Their Meaning a gravity and moral earnestness rare in the pages of contemporary literary criticism

Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Condition:Well Read Colin Hancock is giving hisFrances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of