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

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

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521414768
ISBN13: 9780521414760
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 24 1992
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
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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