Frances Burney and the Doctors - Patient Narratives Then and Now

Provides the first dedicated study of Frances Burney's medical writings which are now viewed as foundational to modern illness narratives.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Note on short titles; Introduction; 1. Frances Burney's long and extraordinary life: 1752-1840; 2. The King, the court and 'madness': 1788-9; 3. Aftermath: 1789-91; 4. An inoculation for smallpox: 1797; 5. 'A mastectomy': 1811; 6. Fighting for life: 'the last illness and death of General D'Arblay': 1818; 7. 'Between hope, trust and truth'; 8. Across the centuries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

John Wiltshire is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in later eighteenth-century literature and is the author of among other books Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient (Cambridge, 1991), Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (Cambridge, 1992) and The Hidden Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2014).

Summary

This book advocates Frances Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathograhy, or the illness narrative. It will appeal to readers with an interest in Frances Burney (both her writings and biographically), in medical history and literature, and in patient and carer narratives.

Product details

• Authors: John Wiltshire, John (La Trobe University Wiltshire
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108476362
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47636-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Essays, Prose: non-fiction, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, MEDICAL / Essays, History of Medicine, Literature: history & criticism, Literary essays, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form