"Camilla, or A Picture of Youth," Fanny Burney's 1796 novel, is noted for its blend of sentiment, drama, and Gothic elements, focusing on the delicate rendering of human emotions. It follows the romantic struggles of Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, dealing with misunderstandings in their love lives.
Camilla, or A Picture of Youth (1796) is Fanny Burney's third novel. It blends sentiment, drama, and Gothic elements, with a particular focus on portraying the nuances of the human heart and its emotional changes. The story follows Camilla Tyrold and her sisters as they navigate romantic relationships and face misunderstandings.
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| Back | or a Picture of Youth Fanny Burney's third novel 1796 Burney calculatedly introduced tender sentiment , dramatic incident and Gothic novel into this work primary interest and skill of the story lies with its delicate and perceptive rendering of the human heart in its feeling and changes Camilla, subtitled A Picture of Youth, is a novel by Frances Burney, first published in 1796. Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people: Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the sweet tempered Lavinia and the deformed, but extremely kind, Eugenia, and their cousin, the beautiful Indiana Lynmere—and in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. They have many hardships, however, caused by misunderstandings and mistakes, in the path of true love. An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. As in Evelina, Burney weaves into her novel shafts of light and dark, comic episodes and gothic shudders, and creates many social, emotional, and mental dilemmas that illuminate the gap between generations. |
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