Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now

by John Wiltshire

Frances Burney is primarily known as a novelist and playwright, but in recent years there has been an increased interest in the medical writings found within her private letters and journals. John Wiltshire advocates Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathography, or the illness narrative. Through her dramatic accounts of distinct medical events, such as her own infamous operation without anaesthetic, to those she witnessed,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108476368
• ISBN13: 9781108476362
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"