Writing the unspeakable: Fanny Burney’s mastectomy and the fictive body

MISCELLANEOUS Written by: Julia J. Epstein – Haverford College “The Matrix [womb] hath a Sympathy with all the parts of the body…. It hath likewise a consent with the breasts; and from hence proceed those swellings, that hardness, and those terrible cancers that afflict those tender parts, that a humour doth flow upwards, from the…

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