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The Power of Her Voice: Music and Patriarchal Politics in Frances Burney's Cecilia

“…The Iron Pen, also notes Burney's inclination to render public places of pleasure as "discursive sites for the mapping of social classifications. "44 Burney of course had personal reasons to insert herself into this discussion about music and class; her family's financial and social successes were due to her father's indirect forwarding of the patriarchal economy by teaching women music.Vjoined to the splendour of her fortune" cannot fail to convince his parents of her suitability as his wife. 49 Although Cecilia is not thrilled to participate in patriarchal society and sometimes seeks refuge in music, those around her insist on reading her music-making as a symbol of a woman invested in the dominant ideology.…”