Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'
ISBN-13:
9780521024990
ISBN-10:
0521024994
Edition:
1
Author:
John Wiltshire
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
268 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521024990
ISBN-10:
0521024994
Edition:
1
Author:
John Wiltshire
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
268 pages
Summary
Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health' (ISBN-13: 9780521024990 and ISBN-10: 0521024994), written by authors
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Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces, illness and health, in the novels, from complainers and invalids such as Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Woodhouse, to the frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable Jane Fairfax and the "picture of health," Emma. The book draws on modern theories of the body, and on eighteenth-century medical sources, to give a fresh and controversial reading of familiar texts.
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