Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually
reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with
informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only Burney's
published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems, and
other works never published. Doody also draws upon a mine of
letters and diaries for detailed and sometimes surprising
biographical information. Burney's feelings and emotions forcefully
emerge in her sophisticated and complex late novels, Camilla and
The Wanderer. Her novels all relate to personal experience; as an
artist she is attracted to the violent, the grotesque, and the
macabre. She is a powerful comic writer, but her comedy is far from
reflecting a shallow cheerfulness. Bringing a novelist's
perspective to her material, in this 1989 book Doody shows an
appreciation of the many dimensions of a predecessor's writings and
she tells her story with force and conviction.
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