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

When the wound was made, & the instrument was withdrawn, the pain seemed undiminished, for the air that suddenly rushed into those delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp & forked poniards, that were tearing the edges of the wound-but when again I felt the instrument-describing a curve-cutting against the grain, if…

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