Frances Burney

A Literary Life

By: J. Thaddeus

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Paperback | 1 March 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, the author of this work aims to show the protean writer who recognized 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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'At this date it is no small achievement to come up with new, valid, important, and definitive insights about Frances Burney, but in this fine focussed work, Thaddeus has managed it. Moreover, delightfully and gracefully written, the book is a page-turner.' - Professor Betty Rizzo, City College of New York

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Genealogical Table	p. xii
Writing as Compulsion and the Redefined Audience (1752-78)	p. 1
Publishing Anonymously: the Early Diaries and the Intricacies of the Mask (1773-79)	p. 18
Evelina: the 'Male' Author and her Boisterous Book (1778-79)	p. 32
Open Authorship: The Witlings, Cecilia, and the Unruly Text (1779-84)	p. 52
Sufferer, Tragedian, and Witness (1784-92)	p. 91
Camilla and the Family (1792-1802)	p. 109
Independence, Marriage, and Comedies without Fetters (1792-1802)	p. 136
The Wanderer: Financial Success, Commercial Failure, and the Untamed Spirit (1802-28)	p. 148
Memoirs of Doctor Burney: Circumscribing the Power (1814-40)	p. 180
Fiction and Truth: All the Unpublished Words	p. 203
Notes	p. 225
Index	p. 255
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