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This 1989 book analyzes Frances Burney's published novels as well as her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published.

An erudite, intelligent and imaginative work of literary scholarship. With vivacity, grace, and wit, Doody traces the history (of the novel) from the ancient novels of Apuleium and Heliodorus through the Renaissance fictions of Boccaccio, Cervantes, and Rabelais to the 'official' birth of the novel in 18th-century England".--BOSTON GLOBE. 39 illustrations.

Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyses not only Burney's published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and other works never published.

The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry.

Fifteen contributors commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of Samuel Richardson's birth with essays investigating various aspects of the novelist's work.