{"product_id":"belinda-a-classic-novel-of-society-courtship-and-independence-hardcover","title":"Belinda: A Classic Novel of Society, Courtship, and Independence - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Edgeworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBelinda\u003c\/em\u003e is Maria Edgeworth's sharp, intelligent novel of society, courtship, reputation, and moral independence in the world of the English aristocracy and gentry.\u003c\/strong\u003e Young Belinda Portman enters fashionable society under the guidance of Lady Delacour, a brilliant, wounded, and self-dramatizing woman whose marriage, friendships, secrets, and social performance reveal the dangers beneath polished manners. Around them, Edgeworth builds a novel of wit, observation, emotional testing, and social judgment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1801, \u003cem\u003eBelinda\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the important early tradition of women's fiction and the novel of manners. Edgeworth examines education, marriage, female friendship, class, race, fashion, debt, reputation, and the pressure placed on women to choose wisely in a world designed to punish them for choosing badly. The novel was also controversial in its early form for its treatment of interracial marriage and colonial identity, and later editions altered some of that material, making \u003cem\u003eBelinda\u003c\/em\u003e a significant text for readers interested in how fiction, society, and publication history intersect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in Jane Austen, Frances Burney, early women novelists, Anglo-Irish literature, social satire, and the development of the nineteenth-century novel will find \u003cem\u003eBelinda\u003c\/em\u003e an important and rewarding work. It is both a lively society novel and a serious study of character, education, moral judgment, and the restrictions placed on women inside the polite world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 402\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377885810925,"sku":"9781515427223","price":51.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/NrqIYLv0AZ9781515427223.webp?v=1785619623","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/belinda-a-classic-novel-of-society-courtship-and-independence-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}