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Evelina Flashcards

1
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What form is Evelina written in?

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Epistolary

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2
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Quote describes Evelina’s innocence?

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Innocent as an angel, and artless as purity itself.

‘Angel’ reference is repeated. Eg Mr Macartney

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3
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Sensibility vs language =

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Authentic vs inauthentic (or at least, limited)

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4
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What year was Evelina written?

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1778

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5
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What year was Richardson’s Pamela written?

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1740

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6
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I can write no more now. …

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I have hardly time to breathe –

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7
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How does Evelina describe her letters?

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As a ‘town journal’

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What quote shows the limitations of the epistolary form, along with the urgency it creates?

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I can write no more now. I have hardly time to breathe –

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9
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What is Evelina’s reaction after receiving Orville’s (fake) letter?

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I cannot journalise.

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10
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What quotes show the limits of expression (within the epistolary form)?

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I can write no more now. I have hardly time to breathe –

I cannot journalise.

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11
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What quote shows the unreliability of the epistolary form?

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Upon a second reading, I thought every word changed - it did not seem the same letter.

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12
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Upon second reading…

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I thought every word changed - it did not seem the same letter

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13
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What’s the subtitle of Evelina?

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The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World

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14
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What genres does Evelina participate in?

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Conduct literature
Sentimental literature
Epistolary

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15
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What effect does the hyperbole have?

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Becomes more comic, so distances the didactic effect.

Reader laughs at absurdity, but therefore becomes complicit in xenophobia or cruelty.

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16
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Hyperbole is in tension with what?

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The sentimental genre.

Sentimentality can seem hyperbolic to contemporary readers, but it is meant to be genuine.

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17
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Example of hyperbole of emotion

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My feet refused to sustain me

I sunk, almost lifeless

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18
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Example quote of absurdity of events:

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He hauled into the room a monkey!

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19
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He hauled into the room a monkey! …

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full dressed and extravagantly à-la-mode!

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20
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What is the poem that shows the association between monkeys and France?

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Canning ‘New Morality’

How Do We Ape Thee, France

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21
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The association between France and monkeys was about what?

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The erosion of British morality as Britain imitated French fashions and manners.

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22
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‘How do we Ape Thee, France!’ is from what poem?

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Canning’s ‘New Morality’

23
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What quote shows the inadequacy of language in Evelina?

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– But alas! –
(Typographical features replace words

I cannot journalise

24
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How does the genre of sensibility describe the body?

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The meaningful body

25
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The sentimental genre shows what about the authenticity of emotion?

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emotions expressed in 'the meaningful body' can't be faked. 
While language (epistolary genre) can be manipulated.
26
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The novel opens with letters between who?

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Rvd. Mr. Village and Lady Howard

27
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What quotes from Mr Lovell show Evelina’s struggle with identity?

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I cannot learn who she is.

A person who is nobody.

28
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How does the epistolary form participate in identity?

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Compensating for lack of voice/agency in real world.
(But it’s broken my Mr Villars’ letters)

Self-fashioning?

Introduced not my Evelina herself.

29
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Lovell says Evelina is: ‘a person…’

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‘Who is nobody.’

30
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What does Evelina say about her lack of identity?

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She sat like a cypher, whom to nobody belonging, by nobody was noticed.

31
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What’s the importance of the following quote being in part 3?

She sat like a cypher, whom to nobody belonging, by nobody was noticed.

A

She has finally realised the full extent of her vulnerability in the world, as well as realising her lack of identity.

32
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What does cypher mean?

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An empty signifier.
It can be a physical, written sign. Eg. A zero (plays on idea of empty written communication.)

Also, a puzzle - to decipher.

33
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What quote shows Evelina’s goal and simultaneously establishes the idea of woman as commodities?

A

Properly owned

34
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What three names does Evelina have?

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Anville
Belmont
Orville

(Never signs Orville)

35
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What is Evelina’s mother’s name?

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Caroline Evelyn

36
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In what ways does Evelina’s name show her lack of identity?

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Anville is almost an anagram of Evelina
It changes very frequently.
Orville and Anville cycle?

37
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Evelina’s mother is called Miss Evelyn. What’s the significance of this?

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Evelina’s name doesn’t belong to herself. No identity.

Equally, her mother is the only person to properly claim Evelina. And name mimics this.

38
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She sat like a cypher…

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whom to nobody belonging, by nobody was noticed.

39
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What quote in Evelina mimics Fantomina’s ‘the blame was wholly hers’?

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I was wholly dependent upon you

40
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What is Evelina’s goal in the novel?

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To be ‘properly owned’

Eg. Women as a commodity.

Finding her identity.

41
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What quote shows Evelina’s dependency on Villars (generally on other people)?

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I was wholly dependant upon you.

42
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What street does Captain Mirvan live on? And what’s its significance?

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Queen Anne street

British monarch declared war against the Spain

Eg. His xenophobia.

43
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What quote shows Evelina’s high level of empathy?

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I most heartily pity him

44
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What quote shows Evelina’s comedic social blunder?

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Scarce could I forbade laughing.

45
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What were licentious men (such as Sir Clement Willoughby) known as?

A

Rakes

46
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What quote shows Evelina laughing?

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‘Scarce could I forbear laughing’ at Mr Lovell’s ‘foppish’ countenance.

47
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Why is the reader complicit when Evelina ‘scarce can forbear laughing’? And what is the significance?

A

Laughs with Evelina.

Conduct literature: laughing in safe environment of book means reader can learn not to do it (like Evelina) in reality.

48
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How is the old woman in the race shown as a commodity.

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She ‘did not belong’ to Lord Merton

Also, the absurdity of the race they are forced to participate in

49
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What quote shows the way letters are open to interpretation?

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Upon second reading, I thought every word changed - it did not seem the same letter.

50
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What war had sharpened tensions with France?

A

Seven year war

Ended in 1763, 16 years before Evelina.

51
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What’s the surname of Evelina’s cousins?

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The Branghtons

52
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Quote where Evelina chooses not to laugh at Madam Duval.

A

This narrative almost compelled me to laugh, yet I was really irritated with the Captain.

53
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How does the young Mr Branghton describe what Polly does by sitting in the shop window?

A

‘Shewing yourself’

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