9780521414760-0521414768-Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'

Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'

ISBN-13: 9780521414760
ISBN-10: 0521414768
Author: John Wiltshire
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 268 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521414760
ISBN-10: 0521414768
Author: John Wiltshire
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 268 pages

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Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health' (ISBN-13: 9780521414760 and ISBN-10: 0521414768), written by authors John Wiltshire, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1992. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health' (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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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