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Frances Burney: A Literary Life

By Janice Farrar Thaddeus (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2000
ISBN
978-0-333-60764-0, 978-0-230-28832-4, 978-0-333-71486-7, 978-0-312-22981-8
DOI
10.1057/9780230288324
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1115752 bytes)
Series
Literary Lives
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 263\276
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Gender Studies; Early Modern/Renaissance Literaturgeneral; Social StructureSocial Inequality

Description

Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, Janice Farrar Thaddeus shows the protean writer who recognised her abilities and exercised them, always carefully shaping her career. Though now frequently depicted as retiring, even fearful, Burney forced on her reading public themes they were scarcely ready for, flamboyantly mixing genres, writing comically about intimate violence. Not content in old age to be merely a literary icon, she privately recorded with increasing clarity the moments when the world lacerates the self.

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