Regulating Female Consumption in Burney’s Camilla
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This paper argues that Camilla exemplifies Burney’s persistent investigation into how a female protagonist is forced to negotiate the complex and often coercive demands of a gentry society defined by rapidly expanding consumption practices. Camilla’s journey towards virtue requires her to enter the world of commerce in which she must learn to curb her fashionable consumption when confronted with the tragic consequences of her financial irresponsibility and debt. Although women can use consumption to conceptualize a notion of the self that accommodate their own desire and agency, Burney also draws attention to the pervasive ways in which patriarchal culture attempts to regulate female consumption through the male gaze. By dramatizing the destructive effect of female consumer appetites on private domestic life, Burney’s Camilla at first glance can be read as a cautionary tale that warns that female consumption needs to be managed properly. The novel, simultaneously, reveals Burney’s implicit critique of how women and their powerful consumer desires are rigorously disciplined by male surveillance in later eighteenth-century Britain.
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This paper argues that Camilla exemplifies Burney’s persistent investigation into how a female protagonist is forced to negotiate the complex and often coercive demands of a gentry society defined by rapidly expanding consumption practices. Camilla’s journey towards virtue requires her to enter the world of commerce in which she must learn to curb her fashionable consumption when confronted with the tragic consequences of her financial irresponsibility and debt. Although women can use consumption to conceptualize a notion of the self that accommodate their own desire and agency, Burney also draws attention to the pervasive ways in which patriarchal culture attempts to regulate female consumption through the male gaze. By dramatizing the destructive effect of female consumer appetites on private domestic life, Burney’s Camilla at first glance can be read as a cautionary tale that warns that female consumption needs to be managed properly. The novel, simultaneously, reveals Burney’s implicit critique of how women and their powerful consumer desires are rigorously disciplined by male surveillance in later eighteenth-century Britain.
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