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Jane Austen and the Body - 'The Picture of Health' (Paperback, New ed)
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Jane Austen and the Body - 'The Picture of Health' (Paperback, New ed)
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Jane Austen has been read as a novelist of manners, whose work
discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on
the contrary, how important are faces and bodies in her texts, from
complainers and invalids like Mrs Bennet and Mr Woodhouse, to the
frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable Jane Fairfax, and
the 'picture of health', Emma. Talk about health and illness in the
novels is abundant, and constitutes community, but it also serves
to disguise the operation of social and gender politics. Behind the
medical paraphernalia and incidents are serious concerns with the
nature of power as exerted through and on the body, and with the
manifold meanings of illness. 'Nerves', 'spirits', and sensibility
figure largely in these books, and Jane Austen is seen to offer a
critique of the gendering power of illness and nursing or
attendance upon illness. Drawing both on modern - medical and
feminist - theories of illness and the body as well as on
eighteenth-century medical sources to illuminate the novels, this
book offers new and controversial, but also scholarly, readings of
these familiar texts.
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